Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 481
the architecthad not known how to finish it off. At the CapellaPalatina where the mosaic is carried over it, smoothing en. XXVIIl] SICILY 275 off the awkward angles, the effect is not very notice- Palermo.able, but even there it has somewhat the look of abungle. At the sides of the apses were… … Corinthian abacus but no pulvino, and with the voluteand caulicolus is combined the angular twist of theSaracen (Fig. 217). The pavement of opus Alexandrinum, of which part Theis shown in Fig. 218, also displays a mixture of East and ^^^^West, for though the general idea is reminiscent of…
Architecture, Gothic
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