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 332
)anels and geomet-rical inlays, and of horizontal bands of dark marble alternating withthe white marble of the walls. We observe, as a rule, much loss … Fig. 2o2. Pistoia. Door-head of S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas. solidity of construction than in the North, the walls are generally ofbrick, and in the facades marble is used in the form of thin platesoverlaying the brick as a veneer, instead of forming the substanceof the wall. This has its effect on the…
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