THE FACADE OF THE CATHEDRAL: SIENA 



The design of this cathedral, had it heen completed, would have produced one of the 

 largest churches in the world. But the plague of 1248, wars at home and abroad, and, most 

 of all, the native variability of the Sienese temperament, interrupted its construction so often 

 that it finally remained "unfinished and bizarre." But "it is incongruous with genius, not 

 with stupidity" (see text, page 339). 



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