The cathedrals and churches of northern Italy, their history and their architecture; (1908)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis) · Boston, L.C. Page and company · leaf 218
angement quite con-trary to all precedents. Here the apse formsa wide semicircle, with six tiers of seats likethose in the ancient amphitheatres, and theepiscopal throne in the centre elevated on ahigh staircase, thus following out the pre-scription of the Apostolic Constitution: Inmedio autem sit… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy tury. Barbaric in conception as in execution,they illustrate the religious feeling and thepropensity to dwell on gloomy and terrificideas of the age that gave them birth. Herewe see the Doom represented with numerousepisodes of infernal punishment correspond-ing to…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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