 On our return we followed this street which ascends and descends, bordered with palaces and old hedges of thorn, as far as Santa Maria Maggiore. This basilica, standing upon a large eminence, surmounted with its domes, rises nobly upwards, at once simple...  Italy: Rome and Naples; Florence and Venice - Pagina 253door Hippolyte Taine - 1871Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1867 - 382 pagina’s
...those of some invisible villa ; on tlie ridges pendant flowers ; here and there escutcheons, cracked by invasions of gilliflowers and mosses, the whole...is said that a temple of Juno was robbed of these columns. Each of them bare and polished, with no other ornament than the delicate curves of its small... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1868 - 386 pagina’s
...old hedges of thorn, as far' as Santa Maria Maggiore. This basilica, standing upon a large eminei?^, surmounted with its domes, rises nobly upwards, at...is said that a temple of Juno was robbed of these columns. Each of them bare and polished, with no other ornament than the delicate curves of its small... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1872 - 390 pagina’s
...invisible villa ; on die ridges pendant flowers ; here and there escuteheons, cracked by invasion i of gilliflowers and mosses, the whole street partitioned...is said that a temple of Juno was robbed of these columns. Each of them bare and polished, with no other ornament than the delicate curves of its small... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pagina’s
...being rebuilt at a later period, the general plan, its antique idea, was preserved. An ample portico with a horizontal roof is sustained by two rows of...Ionic columns. You are rejoiced to see so fine an eft'ect produced by sucb simple means." Taine, Trans. Santa Maria Novella. [The New Church of the Holy... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pagina’s
...being rebuilt at a later period, the general plan, its antique idea, was preserved. An ample portico with a horizontal roof is sustained by two rows of white Ionic columns. You arc rejoiced to see so line an effect produced by such simple means." Taint, Trun*. Santa Maria Novella.... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 262 pagina’s
...Maggiore. This basilica, standing upon a large eminence, surmounted with its domes, rises nobly upward, at once simple and complete, and when you enter it,...is said that a temple of Juno was robbed of these columns. Each of them bare and polished, with no other ornament than the delicate curves of its small... | |
 | Francis Halsey - 2006 - 209 pagina’s
...preserved. An ample nave, with a horizontal roof, is sustained by two rows of white Ionic columns. Yon are rejoiced to see so fine an effect obtained by...yourself in a Greek temple. It is said that a temple of Jnno was robbed of these columns. Each of them bare and polished, with no other ornament than the delicate... | |
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