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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

THE PULPIT IN S. MARTA IN COSMEDIN

your respect. “Oh!” you exclaim, coming from St. Peter's or the Palatine or the Colosseum. The sensualists in art, the animalists in art would be annoyed by S. Maria in Cosmedin. To think that this church was in existence in Rome when the great Renaissance was in full swing with its gilded palaces and its horrors !

Greece by way of Byzantium, a pure creation of the spirit, Architecture is nothing but ordered arrangement, noble prisms,