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 563
Byzantine capitalsof Corinthian form, carrying stilttdround arches with a low clerestoryabove, pierced with round-arched win-dows. These windows are filled, as inthe tribune of San !Miniato at Flor-ence, with slabs of alabaster dividedinto small circular panels so thin asto be translucent. The nave… … TORCELLO in:irl)k (-(111111111.-; xvitli a siiinilc tlitalilaturi,the openings, except that in the nii(-l(lk,being closed by an elaborate railiiisr witli variouti saints. These are jresumably ofnearly the same date with the church.The west wall is also covered with a
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