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 252
Fi^^ 1(52. S. Vitale. Capital, iroiu Lower Arcade of Tribune. character with that below, but bolder and more strongly undercut,and where the angles are quite lost, and the capital has an imperfectlydeveloped abacus receding on each face as in the Corinthian capital,but with a swelling outward curve… … Fig, ill;^. 8. \itale. Upper Wall of Tribune. either side is a triple-arched opening divided by cohimns whose capi-tals are similar in character to those below. The head of the greatenclosing arch is filled with a fan-like decoration, and the walls arecovered with the original sixth-century…
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