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 270
)le capitals. (Fig. 184.) The interest of these buildings resides, however, less in their gen-eral design than in tlieir characteristic decoration, which, althoughsparing in (piantity,—far too much so to give the impression ofrichness to tlie facades,— is of a quality and variety which make… … Ciboriuiu of S. Ambrogio, Milan. are of several quite distinct forms, and vary not less in detail, fromthe braided lily capital so familiar to all students of St. Markschurch, to the simple high concave twin capitals of the coupledcolumns in the upper arcade of the Casa Farsetti. The single…
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