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 243
convex block, round at thebottom, square at the top, very simple in outline, with well-developedvolutes at the sides only partially disengaged from the mass of thecapital, which is covered with a flowing acanthus leafage deeplyundercut, enclosing in the centre of the face a circle with… … ^^^!^/^^^ including the soffit, is covered with marble bas-reliefs. The flatlymoulded archivolt is broad, and the spandril encloses in the centre adisc of colored marble with a carved border. The strongly project-ing cornice is also richly decorated. In the u})per arcade the span-drils are covered…
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