Abstract
The sources which Renaissance architects used to develop their architectural compositions were not strictly architectural but were drawn from a wider visual field, and often involved heterogeneous material. This was so because the ancient models, imperfectly preserved as amputated fragments and often only apprehensible through a great effort of the imagination, needed to be fleshed out by other means: by architectural representations on ancient coins, plaquettes, sculptural reliefs, cameos et...
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