The architecture of humanism; a study in the history of taste

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tegna,

inthefifteenthcentury,paintedmenasCaesars

and made splendid with antiquefriezeand

column

thelegends

oftheChurch. Thearchitectsofhuman-

ismbuiltdeep. Liketheheroesof

Mantegna, they

performed their labourin a Roman panoply, and

in thebroken templesof Rome

dreamed theirown

vision,likehissaints.