Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 491
E CATHEDRAL CH. XXIX] SICILY 283 his avaricious father. The work was begun in 1172, Monreaieand in 1176, though the church was still unfinished, thefirst monks and the Abbot Theobald from the Bene-dictine abbey of La Cava were installed in the newconvent. The church is a basilica (Fig. 222),… … Fig. 222. loggia filling the space between them, above and behindwhich appears the west wall of the nave, ornamentedwith interlacing arcading and with a large window. Thesouth-west tower is finished with a rather later storey,and the other was never finished at all, but is semi-ruinous. The present…
Architecture, Gothic
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