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 54
at Pavia. Of these the three lastwere only begun when the fourteenth cen-tury was drawing to its close. That thesegreat churches are not without some beautiesof their own it would be idle to deny; buttaken as a whole they are certainly inferior,both in design and power of expression, tothose of the… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy so vainly tried to imitate. It may be that insome respects the shortcomings of these hugeedifices are not chargeable to the originaldesign, as they depended much more foreffect on their sculpturesque and polychro-matic decoration, in which the Italians werealways at…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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