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108 ." The moving purpose with him was thus primarily archaeological and literary, rather than artistic.

The Rucellai is in form substantially like the Riccardi and other buildings of its class, but in place of the plain wall sur- 59.—Façade of the Rucellai.

faces which are appropriate for a building that has no structural framework, we have an order of classic pilasters dividing the face of each story into bays answering to nothing in the real system of construction (Fig. 59). We thus have here in