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 242
)l(i the provaliMico oftlic IW/antino spirit inthe lUcoration has 1)l-Ioino nearly absolute.In the Agios Sergius(the cliureh of 8S. 8er-gius and Baechiis), thelower eoluiuns have aconvex bloek capitalvery like those of 8.Sofia.^ The upper col-umns have an Ioniccapital crushed nnderthe weight of a… … Fig. 155. S. Sofia. Capital and Spandril of UpperArcade. of the lower order is covered with decoration, much as in the porticoof the Agios Johannes, mentioned above. It is, as we should expect, in Santa Sofia that the richness ofsculptural decoration reaches its height; but even here the…
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