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 374
00, i-eplacing anearlier church of the vi century. It wasprobably partially rebuilt in 1-2T2, by Aic-eolo Pisano. Madonxa del Umilta, a conspicuousand interesting Renaissance church be-gun in 149-t by Ventura Vitoui, but onlycompleted in 1569. It is an octagon !)0ft. in diameter, faced with a… … Fig. 149—Pistoia, Mad. del Umilft.Scale o( 100 feet. The octagon is in four stories, of whichall but the u]ipermost are encircled IjyCorinthian orders with coujiUd pilas-ters. Ilu lower order, which lines thechurch throughout, is on high j)edes- 306 PISTOIA tills. In the octagon its intorvals…
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