Excerpt from The Malatesta Temple The Malatesta temple is, off all Alberti's works, that one which most faithfully mirrors the artistic temperament of the great architect. The Mediaeval spirit and Roman classicism (which perhaps took root in Alberti from seeing the Arch of Augustus in Rimini) find there such pleasing harmony that the derivative type would seem at first glance to be Spontaneous. One would say that this temple was erected in glorification of Humanism, that pagan spirit which, in the 1sth century, filled the ...
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Excerpt from The Malatesta Temple The Malatesta temple is, off all Alberti's works, that one which most faithfully mirrors the artistic temperament of the great architect. The Mediaeval spirit and Roman classicism (which perhaps took root in Alberti from seeing the Arch of Augustus in Rimini) find there such pleasing harmony that the derivative type would seem at first glance to be Spontaneous. One would say that this temple was erected in glorification of Humanism, that pagan spirit which, in the 1sth century, filled the air and animated the lives of the great men sleeping there in the tombs with which the Lord of Rimini had willed to surround his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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