After describing Arnolfo's building of the Florentine Duomo, he proceeds: "In questo Architetto si vide qualche leggiero barlume di buona Architettura, come di Pittura in Cimabue suo contemporaneo.

Ma in tutte le cose e fisiche e morali i passaggi si fanno per insensibili gradagioni; onde per lungo tempo ancora si mantenne il corrotto gusto, che si puo chiamare Arabo-Tedesco." [28] Observe, for example, the casing of a Gothic church at Rimini by Alberti with a series of Roman arches; or the facade of S.Andrea at Mantua, where the vast and lofty central arch leads, not into the nave itself, but into a shallow vestibule.
[29] See Burckhardt, _Cicerone_, vol.i.p.

167.
[30] See De Stendhal, _Histoire de la Peinture en Italie_, p.

122.
[31] For a notice of his life, see Vol.II., _Revival of Learning_, p.
247.
[32] The Arch of Augustus at Rimini was the model followed by Alberti in this facade.

He intended to cover the church with a cupola, as may be seen from the design on a medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.