The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 267
of us that the bewildering assemblage of statues,pinnacles, columns, and mosaics in the fagade of the cathedral detractedfrom the general effects. Such an amount of carving spread over alarger area would be much more pleasing to the eye. The descriptionof the cathedral tells us that Mccolo Pisano… … AT THK KNTRANCJK OK THK CATUKPnAL. were generally the most ancientof them, the tendency of theconstructors in the latter peri-od of the work being towardsplainer styles than those inwhich the building was begun.In the interior there are twarows of marble pillars whichdivide the nave, and the…
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