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 224
shown, liolding down a monstrous <;riilin witha birds beak, and ending foul in many a scaly fold, with a hea<lwhich turns and bites the lion in the haunch. Even the bases of columns are not deprived of their share of allthis wealth of sculpture. The angle of the plinth bears freciucntly,as in… … Mm Figf. 138. Pavia. Base from S. Michele. In the Lombard churches, it was in its simplest forms an undevelopedbeak or claw, which later became more definite and naturalistic, or 1 And at Ferrara in the great doorway of the cathedral, deeply splayed and richlyornamented, the outer columns rest on…
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