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 530
side arc two fine door-ways, the northern one called the LionDoor from two flanking lions guardingit, fiom whose backs rise octagonal sliaftsbearing statues of Adam and Eve undercanopies. The west door is similar instvle but richer. To the changes of 1441 SEGESTA are due tlie choir, tlie eastern… … Fig. 208.—Segesta, Temple. tern has two large windows in each faceand is very light in construction, beingtied with iron like the nave vaults. Thecupola and tlie vault have been takendown in the present century and rebuilt.In the southern apse is a fine baptisteryof mixed Gothic and Renaissance…
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