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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
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PLAN OF ST. PETER'S AS IT EXISTS
The Nave has been extended as shown by the shading; Michael Angelo had something to say; it has all been destroyed.
Michael Angelo is the man of the last thousand years as Phidias was the man of the thousand years before. The Renaissance did not produce Michael Angelo, it only produced a crowd of talented fellows.
The work of Michael Angelo is a creation, not a Renaissance, and overshadows the classical epochs. The apses of St. Peter's are Corinthian. Imagine it! Look at them and think of the Madeleine. He had seen the Colosseum and retained its rare proportions; the Thermæ of Caracalla and the Basilica of Con-
