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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 212

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n 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 over cdboria ordoors, that in the Lombard style at… … Fig. 106.—Cusped Archivolt in S. Apolliiiaris, near Eavenna—IXth Century. &c.—are to be seen in the churches or in the palaces ofRavenna. Columns similar to those of the ciborium of S.Elucadius stand in the atrium of the basilica of the HolySpirit, and most probably sustained a ciborium, of the…

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