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 204
e relieved against a wallof very rich red brick, with ornamentsof terra-cotta, divided into stages bydelicate arched corbel - tables. Thehead of the tower is encircled by adouble arcaded gallery, the arches ofwhich are carried on small columns ;and the columns of the upper arcaderest on corbels… … Fiff. IIG. Tower of S. Gottardo. In these notices of the Lombardchurches and baptisteries, I have thus far omitted all consideration of one of their most importantand characteristic features, — their sculpture : preferringto consider the Lombard sculpture by itself, as perhaps on Lombard 1 i…
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