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Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 242

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screen has marble columns carrying a flatentablature, and below them is a solid portion some four feethigh covered with panels of flat sciilpture, one having twopeacocks drinking out of the same vase, another two lionsat the foot of a branching tree, and another a complicatedinterlacing pattern of… … 22. X)U0]VI0. TOr^CELLO. 168. Chap. VIII.] TOROELLO. 1G9 the ruins created by Attilas invasion, or wrought on thespot, I cannot say, but of a character which we still seein some of the nearly corresponding screens in the existingcathedral of Aquileja. North-west of this rood-screen standsthe marble…

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