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 567
olumns ofmarble with semi-classic capitals, a squarechoir and three round apses with a high receive the Iwdies of three saints wliiehwere then brought to Toscanella. In 650the church was so far advanced that thebishops chair was brought hither fromthe neighboring but smaller t-hurcli ofSta. Maria;… … Fig. 215.—Toscanella, Cathedral. crypt beneath, the central apse decoratedwith frescoes dating from 1039 to 1090.The high altar is under a baldacchinowith round arches on marble columns,and a pyramidal roof. The roofs are allopen-timbered. A curious detail, per-haps unique, is the jiarapet between…
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