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 304
in fig-ures of angels blowing trumpets. The altar,which was renewed at the same time as thereredos, is a large slab of white marble, sup-ported in front by four carved spiral col-umns of the same material. Behind the col-umns is a front carved in very low relief inarabesque patterns. The reredos is… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy This substructure appeared to me to beover-large, having the effect of raising thereredos far too much, so that the efifect ofits own delicate work and its relation to thechurch are both spoilt. The substructure itself is, although in-tended to be Pointed, almost…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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