Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 486
wn an inclined planeof marble, wrinkled with zigzags to break the streaminto sparkling wavelets ; and thence through a channelbetween marble sides adorned with mosaic it falls intosquare pools sunk in the floor. A more delicious retreatfrom the sun of a Sicilian summer, where, lulled bythe tinkling… … CH. xxviii] SICILY 281 to every passer-by on the dusty high-road : the marble Palermo.is mostly stripped from the walls, and the mosaic pickedout, but much of the old oriental charm still hangs aboutwhat is left. The palace of La Cuba, outside the Porta Nuova, La Cubawhich was built by William II…
Architecture, Gothic
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