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 612
three earlier churches datingfrom the v, vii. and x cents.,respectively. The present struct-ure is chiefly remarkable for itsfacade, designed by Sardi, andan example of the worst extrava-^ L;ances of the later IJenais.sance.J It is in two stages, the lower di-I vided into five bays by coupledi… … Fig. 243.—Venice, S, M. della Salute. 634 VEXrCE repeated agaiust the nave over tlie threemiddle intervals, the order being hereCorinthian, and the centre occnpied by astatue raised on a high jjedestal whichdivides a sarcophagus, with a backgroundof stone drapery. Above is piled a massof…
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