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Vanished Renaissance Architectural Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Art and architecture style twisting classical norms into intricate façades
  • 2. Architect whose treatise shaped the theorized orders of Renaissance design
  • 4. Entrance hall once grandiose, now minimized or removed in modern retrofits
  • 6. Faux architectural painting blurring the boundary of actual and illusion
  • 8. Fragments or shards of architectural elements studied to trace lost styles
  • 9. Scroll-like ornament critical in Ionic columns but subtly transformed later
  • 10. Style venerating symmetry, named after Andrea's classical visions
  • 12. Arcaded gallery above nave arcades fading from Renaissance ecclesiastical design
  • 17. Italian public square whose original Renaissance layouts often vanished
  • 18. Roof style reshaped by Renaissance but later evolved, obscuring original form
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  • 3. Base platform once foundational in columnar Renaissance architecture
  • 5. Decorative style often conflated post-Renaissance, fading from original forms
  • 7. Echoing the master architect of St. Peter's earliest design phases
  • 11. Horizontal assembly resting above columns, often simplified in lost styles
  • 13. Forecourt or entrance zone often lost in Renaissance church renovations
  • 14. Fancy term for window openings often redesigned out of traditional Renaissance patterns
  • 15. Sculpted maiden column, rarely preserved in Renaissance edifices
  • 16. Triangular gable whose subtle variants were phased out from pure Renaissance
  • 19. Small dome, frequently altered or omitted from original Renaissance skylines
  • 20. Open gallery lost in modern constructions but vital in Renaissance villas

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