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 323
s of great deli-cacy by Giovanni da Pisa and other pu-pils of Xiccolo Pisano. The hollows ofthe spiral shafts of the great doorwaysare filled with mosaics in geometrical pat-terns ; a triple band of the same charac-ter surrounds tlie opening of the centraldoorway ; the gables, the rose window, and… … ill tun Fi?. 130,—Ofvieto, Cathedral, Central Gable. doorway arches, are entirely covered withpictured mosaics on a gold ground, and ofadmirable workmanship. The whole fronthas since 1880 undergone a complete res-toration. It has little logical connectionwith the church behind it. but is a…
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