The Florentines completed the façade of the cathedral in 1887 and are now spending enormous sums on the Medici chapel at S. Lorenzo; why should they not one day carry out their greatest artist's intention?

Everything, on the contrary, points to Titian's evolution being anything but rapid; in fact, so far as records go, there is no mention of his name until he painted the façade of the Fondaco de' Tedeschi in company with Giorgione in 1507.

From 1513 to 1521 Leo X, who cared less to complete his predecessor's monument than to endow his native city, Florence, with the works of the great artist, employed Michelangelo almost exclusively in building the façade and sacristy of San Lorenzo.

An architect had received carte-blanche, and disporting himself right royally, had designed a façade which it would be hard to beat: at any rate, in England.

The cathedral, which presents a handsome façade of about seventy feet, the town-hall, and courts, occupy one side of the place d'armes,these, with the American theatre, the théâtre d'Orleans, or French opera house, the hospital, and three or four churches, are the only public buildings in the city.

The letter is curious in several respects, because it shows how changeable through many months Giulio remained about the scheme; at one time bidding Michelangelo prepare plans and models, at another refusing to listen to any proposals; then warming up again, and saying that, if he lived long enough, he meant to erect the façade as well.

From the Merinid hill we had noticed a long façade among the cypresses and fruit-trees of Eldjid.

I wish however they would finish the façade of two of these churches, viz., that of Santa Maria Novella and that of Santa Croce.

Not very far away, in the Via Ghibellina, is a house which contains some rough plans by a master hand for this façade, drawn some four hundred years agothe hand of none other than Michelangelo, whose scheme was to make it not only a wonder of architecture but a wonder also of statuary, the façade having many niches, each to be filled with a sacred figure.

To the left, the familiar words "Morley's Hotel" designate an edifice about half windows, where the plebeian traveller may sit and contemplate Northumberland House opposite, and the straight-tailed lion of the Percys surmounting the lofty battlement which crowns its broad façade.

But even Piero sometimes quickened his step as he passed the beautiful sea façade of the Ducal Palace, whose rose-tinted walls seemed made only to reflect sunshine; for perchance he guessed the name of that victim who hung with covered face between the columns, bearing in bold letters on his breast, by way of warning, the nature of the crime for which he paid such awful penaltysome crime against the State.

Le trésor, quand du coffre on détache les boucles, Semble à qui l'entrevoit un rêve d'escarboucles; Ce trésor est muré dans un caveau discret Dont le marquis régnant garde seul le secret, Et qui fut autrefois le puits d'une sachette; Fabrice maintenant connaît seul la cachette; Le fils de Witikind vieilli dans les combats, Othon, scella jadis dans les chambres d'en bas Vingt caissons dont le fer verrouille les façades,

In front lay the great white façade of the Grand Hotel; below was all the bustle, life, and movement of Paris on a bright sunny afternoon.

Before shutting the window, he pointed out, to the right, the façade of a pretty little new building, where the colonel could distinctly read: AUDRET ARCHITECTE MDCCCLIX A perfectly satisfactory piece of evidence, and one which did not cost twenty francs.

Perhaps our critic would have preferred a façade like that of the Palais de Justice at Paris,a platform, ascended by an immense flight of steps, which serves as a basement for a projecting body of four Doric columns; with four large pedestals in front, and statues of Strength, Plenty, Justice, and Prudence, as the cardinal virtues of English legislation and trade.

The works in St. Mark's reëstablished in more than its original solidity the south flank, which was in such a state of ruin that only the abundant shoring had prevented the façade from top to bottom from falling bodily into the Piazza.

"On the arrival of the firemen they used every effort to prevent the fire communicating itself to the apartments of the Princess Clothilde; it had already reached the façade on the side of the Place.

"Alter and add to the front to represent the façade of a small cathedral.

The principal monument is a broad, projecting cliff, one side of which has been cut so as to resemble the façade of a temple.

To have rivalled the façade of the Certosa would have been impossible in London.

The diligence put them down at La Boule d'Or, a clean and well-kept inn, overlooking the river and from the windows of which could be seen the white façade of the Hôtel de Ville and the numberless towers rising here and there above the old town.

It suggests the façade of a Gothic church."

Instead of supporting a triangular façade, each pillar stands separate and bears a marble statue from the chisel of Schwanthaler.

Some time in January 1518, Michelangelo travelled to Rome, conferred with Leo, and took the façade of S. Lorenzo on contract.

He undertook the façade of S. Lorenzo reluctantly, with tears in his eyes and dolour in his bosom, at the Pope Medusa's bidding.