[*] More, Charles Herbert. Character of renaissance architecture. [**]$3. Macmillan.
“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and England.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”
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[*] “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand without a reassertion of the most important of them.”
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[*] “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to the verge of iconoclasm.”
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[*] “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced classes in our universities and a reference book for readers generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is specially copious and exhaustive.”
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