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 46
me were availed «.,,.,. ^, .. .. . Plundering of in the buildings of later centuries is a striking evidence of ancientof the splendor of the ancient city. The practice of takingcolumns, friezes, cornices, etc., from the temples, basilicas, baths, andother monuments was well-nigh universal for six… … ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦->^* ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦V ^•^ o » ♦ ♦ ♦ »\ Fiy;. 1(. Window-plates. 8. Lorenzo. •JO ARCHITECTUHE IN ITALY such material woulil have been exhausted in a single generation.Hut the (juarry was prodigious. .Vucieut itineraries of Rome, pub-lished before the end of the fourth century, enumerate 424…
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