Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)
Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 211
ers,^ ... and archivolts deco- Fig. 105.—Side of a Sarcophagus in S. ApoUinaris, near rated with bead-WOrk.Eaveuna—YIth and IXth Centuries. \\\x^i mOSt attracts US in it is the form of the little arches, which, instead of beingsemicircular, are what are called horseshoe arches. It is notnecessary… … 204 work in the Ttalirtn-13_vzantine style; it is an arch that perhapscrowned a little ciborium and now serves as an ornament to thedoor of the belfry. It is the oldest example of a cusped arclii-volt, and is, moreover, ornamented Antli rampant caulicules ;it is the prototyjie of those adornments…
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