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Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)

Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 154

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arches adorned with stuccoes, and littlestone pilasters with capitals. Both serve as the base of acovering of large thin slabs of stone which composed the pave-ment of the apsis above. Five little windows, made in thehigher part of the apsis walls, gave it light. To what age did this crypt belong ?… … Fig. 62.—Capital of S. SavioursChurch, Brescia—A.D. 75.3. * Dartein gives us a drawing of one of these capitals with a cross, but wronglyinterpreted the mutilated lower part, supposing it to have had only one row of leaves,while, if one carefully exanaiues it, the remains of a lower row are…

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