Published: 1984
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"This study was an investigation of the formal elements of Renaissance architecture, which were transformed and reinterpreted from the Roman style by Florentine architects of the fifteenth century. Fourteen significant examples of Renaissance architecture were researched, visited, and sketched in an attempt to understand the interrelationships of structure, function, and site to the composition of mass, space, facade, and ornament. The formal expression of the basic architecutral elements of base, window, corner, cornice, and column were examined individually and then considered collectively in the facade composition"--Preface.