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 272
Fij^. Jmj. (.il.Miiiniii I ^ AiMillinaie in (liiHs*- THE liYZA.NTKNK I \ !• I.I I:N( K 2iu Oil*of the most (lj:ini(5teriHtic of tlu; early Hyzantino paluncs ofVenieo is a house in the Kio di Ca Foscari ( Fi^^ 187), fallm longsince into a ruinous coudition, hut sho\vin<jf even in ruin inufli of… … Fig. i^6. Venice. Fondafo dei i urcia. peculiar grace and charm of the Byzantine decoration. A great cen-tral arch some ten feet in span, slightly stilted, is flanked by fourarches on each side of one third its breadth, but so highly stilted thattheir crowns are kept on a level with that of the…
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