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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

THE APSES OF ST. PETER'S AT ROME

III

MICHAEL ANGELO

Intelligence and passion; there is no art without emotion, no emotion without passion. Stones are dead things sleeping in the quarries but the apses of St. Peter's are a drama. Drama lies all round the key achievements of humanity. The drama of Architecture is the same as that of the man who lives by and through the universe. The Parthenon is moving; the Egyptian Pyramids, of granite once polished and shining like