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 214
n IVIichele is to the Lonil>ard sculpture; what St. Marks is tothe Byzantine, — a great storehouse or museum where the work ofvarious periods and various styles has been brou<^ht together. Inthe great doorways, both of the west front and of the transei)ts,much of the i)r()fuse carving of the… … animals withor meandering foliage.But even here, in manyinstances, the animals,though of a gentlertype than the Lombardloved, show the sameinsatiable appetite forbiting and fightingwhich we have re-marked in the trulyLombard work. If theanimal is alone he isnipping his own tail orwings or back, or…
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