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See also:SANMICHELE, MICHELE (1484-1559) , See also:Italian architect, was See also:born in See also:San Michele near See also:Verona. He learnt the elements of his profession from his See also:father Giovanni and his See also:uncle Bartolommeo, who both practised as architects at Verona with much success. He went at an See also:early See also:age to See also:Rome to study classic See also:sculpture and See also:architecture. Among his earliest See also:works are the duomo of See also:Montefiascone (an octagonal See also:building surmounted with a See also:cupola), the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of San Domenico at See also:Orvieto, and several palaces at both places. He also executed a See also:fine See also:tomb in S. Domenico. He was no less distinguished as a military architect, and was much employed by the signoria of See also:Venice, not only at See also:home, but also in strengthening the fortifications of See also:Corfu, See also:Cyprus and See also:Candia. One of Sanmichele's most graceful designs is the Cappella de' Peregrini in the church of S. Bernardino at Verona—square outside and circular within, of the Corinthian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. He built a See also:great number of fine palaces at Verona, including those of See also:Canossa, Bevilacqua and Pompei, as well as the graceful See also:Ponte Nuovo. In 1527 Sanmichele began to transform the fortifications of Verona according to the newer See also:system of corner bastions—a system for the See also:advancement of which he did much valuable service. His last See also:work, begun in
1559, was the See also:round church of the Madonna di Campagna, 12 m. from Verona on the road to Venice. Like most other distin-
guished architects of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he wrote a work on classic architecture, I Cinque Ordini dell' architettura, printed at Verona
in 1735.
See Ronzani and Luciolli, Fabbriche . . . di M. Sanmichele (Venice, 1832) ; and Selva, Elogio di Sanmichele (Rome, 1814).
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