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 322
tect was removed from the Pisan spirit, and how strong wasthe influence of the older and wilder Lombards. The si)andrils ofthe arches and the small j)ortion of wall between the arcades and thestring courses are covered with an inlay of white marble on a groundof dark green ser])entine, in which… … FijT. 225. Lucca. S. Michele. placed, but of the greatest nicety and delicacy of execution, curiouslyat variance with the rudeness of the drawing. It is the Lombardthought expressed in the Pisan language, the spirited but barbarousstone sculpture of San Michele of Pavia being abandoned in favor…
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