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 290
uds of mo-saic in marbles and bituminons stone, col-umns, and rosettes. The old atrinm be-fore the front furnished the columns foran open arcade built on the north side atthe end of the xvi cent., and on the southis a row of chapels against which lies thegreat cloister of the adjoining… … whicii many retain their original cajiitals,while others are renewed. The .sanctuary,connected by open arches with the flank-ing chapels, forms a choir raised above thetransept, and against its northern pier isthe kings throne, as at Cefalu ; the cross- ing and transept arms arc raised somesteps…
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