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 248
a — all show above their nave columns thischaracteristic Byzantine feature, in varying forms. In the firstnamed church, built between 425 and 440, it takes the form of arigid cyma, rising from a flat ])late at the base, and projecting morein a line across the church than in the line of the arcades,… … It is to bo noted tluit in thcst^o;irlyox:ini|)los the capitals thoni-selves still kcei) to tin; (classictype, most of them indeed hav-ing: been taken from older bnild-in<^s. In S. Agata, however, i-a single capital with volutesrolled ni)wards, evidently madefor the building, and whichmarks the…
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