Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
The book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects was written by author Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574 Here you can read free online of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects a good or bad book?
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This work, which was an ingenious, useful, and marvellously beautiful thing, was carried almost to completion before the death of Clement ; and the mouth of the well, which alone remained to be executed, was finished by order of Pope Paul III, but not according to the directions drawn up by Clement with the advice of Antonio, who was much commended for so beautiful a work. Certain it is that the ancients never built a structure equal to this in workmanship or ingenuity, seeing, above all, that ...the central shaft is made in such a way that even down to the bottom it gives light by means of certain windows to the two staircases mentioned above. While this work was in progress, the same Antonio directed the construction of the fortress of Ancona, which in time was carried to completion. Afterwards, Pope Clement resolving, at the time when his nephew Alessandro de' Medici was Duke of Florence, to erect an im- pregnable fortress in that city, Signor Alessandro Vitelli, Pier Francesco da Viterbo, and Antonio laid out that castle, or rather, fortress, which is between the Porta al Prato and the Porta a S.
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