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 448
an airof solemnity to the interior.It seems never to have beentreated as a real dome, beingcovered with a flat roof,resting on the external walls,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… … KCTION OF BAPTISTERY. 808 PIACENZA. [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…
