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 263
Ambrogio is a curious example of the stilt-block practicallytransformed into an abacus.* (Fig. 177.) In San Abbondio atComo, an eighth century church, one of the long narrow windows ofthe apse is enclosed by a broad band of sculpture, with a meanderingvine, in the spaces of which are birds feeding… … Fig. 174. Capital. S. Salvatore, Brescia. At Cividale in Friuli, in the little church of Sta. Maria in Valle(dating from the middle of the eighth century), the arch over the maindoorway has a very broad archivolt moulded in stucco over a plaintympanum, with the same favorite motive of a meandering…
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