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 450
terior.It seems never to have beentreated as a real dome, beingcovered with a flat roof, resting on tlie external walls, section of baptistery. which are carried up far above the vault. The paintingswith which the walls are covered are arranged without anyorder or general scheme of design. They… … 308 PIACP]NZA. [Chap. XT. This baptistery is said to have been commenced by thearchitect Benedetto di Antelamo in a.d. 1196/ who is alsocredited with many other works here, and specially withmuch of the early sculpture in the Duomo and baptistery ;it was not completed until 1260. There are three…
