Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)
Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 343
ul, preserved in thelast-named city, was learnedly studied by Count Alvise Piero Zorzi, the illustriousdirector of that museum. 335 century. To Battaglini it seemed the figure of Fortune, a relicof paganism and of the edifices of Altino. But these figuresbreathe out the genius of the Greek artists… … L^ r ...J .J J 1 V ,1 l.v J.U / Fig. 165.—Parapet of the Cathedral of Torcello—a.d. 1008. Avorker in Venice, after its disappearance of so many centuries.The scene being thus comi^leted, it was easy to understand thatthe semi-nude figure of a man on winged wheels which occupiesthe centre is neither…
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