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A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)

Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 194

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^ varied from the circular or octa-gonal plan ; yet this sometimes happened. One of the fewinstances of such departure is the very beautiful baptisteryat Gravedoifti, tow^ards the northern end of the Lake of Como, wdiichis built in the similitude of a church, and is known as Sta. Mariadel Tiglio.… … Parma. Gravedona. 168 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY and on the west (for the building is oriented like a church) a finetower attached to the middle of the fa^ade, and forming an entrance})orch, — a most unusual arrangement in Italy. In the interior, abovea triple-arched blind arcade on the north and south…

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