Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)
Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 341
e, in the central pine apple,and in the spirals forming curled up leaves and grapes, peckedat hy birds. But in tlie four other parapets of the facade,though one recognises the same style and the same epoch, one is 333 constrained to see the work of an artificer who hft no si^n ofhis chisel in S.… … ||||lll^lt^lllililll^»&^lll,^;,»fa■V,;:ig^ Fig. 164.—Parapet of the Cathedral of Torcello—a.d. 1008. splendid parapets in the cathedral of Torcello. Tiioir heantifnlcompositions, and the well-distrihuted spirals, rich in leaves andcalixcs and flowers of elegant iiiorJ)i(Icz:(i, are new to us.…
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