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A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance

Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · 1901 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · 238 pictures

Charles Amos Cummings's two-volume survey of Italian building from Constantine to the early Renaissance, published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston and New York in 1901 for students and architects. Coarse-screen halftones of church facades and details, like Orvieto's rose window ringed by mosaic panels, niche statues and arcaded galleries, give gritty grey-black texture and dense geometric ornament for cropping or tracing.

Architecture

Internet Archive · Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0