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CONSTRUCTION XVIII. PROTECTION 239
for putting ornament out of sight, of which the Renaissance architects are not slow to avail themselves.
A more rational condition is the complete pediment with a couple of shafts, or pilasters, carried on a bracketed sill; and the windows of this kind, which have been well designed, are perhaps the best things which the Renaissance schools have produced: those of Whitehall are, in their way, exceedingly beautiful; and those of the Palazzo Riccardi at Florence, in their simplicity and sublimity, are scarcely unworthy of their reputed designer, Michael Angelo.1
1 [Cf. Seven Lamps, ch. iv. § 14, Vol. VIII. p. 153 and n., for another reference to Michael Angelo’s windows in that Palace.]
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