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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 516

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din winter, while St. Stefano served duringthe summer months. Twice a year the can-ons repaired processionally from one ofthese churches to the other. Towards the close of the fifteenth cen-tury the Pavians, following the example ofmany other cities, were seized with the de-sire to rebuild their… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy Accordingly a structure, in which thegreat feature was to be a huge central oc-tagon surmounted by a dome, was com-menced in 1488 from the designs of Cristo-foro Rocchi, a pupil of Bramante, and inthat earlier phase of the Renaissance stylewhich had already taken so…

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