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 313
eliefs and panelsof the door-jambs are continued around the arch. The interior of the baptistery is simple, the decoration being con-fined to the capitals, which are generally of the Corinthian type, butmuch less pure than those of the exterior. Some of the pilasterca])itals, however, show the hand… … li^. 1^15-. iisa. Section of Baptistery. TIIK (i;mkai. IJO.M A.M.si^I k •J87 intervals with tlilii courses of daiU mail)!^, and pirn-cd witli smallroiiiul-arched windows lillrd with stained ^lass. In the centre ofthe l)uildin<^ is the octagonal font, a heautiful work of tin; thirteenthcentury,…
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