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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 446

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aisles have two arches inclosing small arcadessimilar to those in the bays of the side walls, and the end ofthe nave has the same arcade on each side of a porch of twostages in height, the lower of which is carried on detached Ml. Forkiiiy, Italian Sculptois, p. 251, says that tlie nationality… … o i^ Chap. XI.] THE CATHEDRAL. 305 shafts resting on lions backs. Tlie upper part of the porchwas altered in order that a great wheel window might beinserted, sometime in the foiirteentli century. This rose window fills the whole upper part of thewestern gable, and is, like many Italian examples,…

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