A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 280
orm a facade for the church,making an octostyle portico,with a iKdiment charged withsculjiture, above which, andquite overwhelming it by its sizeand height, rises the great domesurrounded by Corinthian j^ilas-ters, the intervals filled alter-nately by square windows witlitlat caps, and circular… … Fig, 1 14.—Milan. S. Ambrogio, Plan.Scale of 100 feet. side of the Church of the Assumption.The apse with one bay of the nave was aao MILAN spared, and a new front was built acrossthe west end, in wliicli was j^reserved theold central doorway of the original facade,with some admirable sculpture.…
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