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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 198

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rilobed windows whose lights arecut out of slabs of marble covered with ornaments in theItalian-Byzantine style. Fleury, who has noticed them, tookthem for parapets ; but I, after a careful examination, recog-nised in them four archivolts of a ciborium, adorned with braids,cords, lilies, spindles,… … the-Walls, Eoine— End of theVllltli Century. T90 supported by coarse pillars, in the upper part ofwhich is a curved cross, and, in the lower part,a rude rosette inscribed in a circle formed ofseveral ribbons knotted at equal distances.Vine-leaves and grapes fill up the gaps. From this epoch until…

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