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 66
i:irl»l«*and ji^ranito, 2.0 feet liij;li, with narrow intervals, cairyinj; a horizontalentaldature, with mosaic friezes and decorated cornicre, aliovi; whichrises a clerestory wall, with Hat Corinthian pilasters over the colnmnsbelow, and pierced with lar<;e ronnd-headed windows, nnder which… … Fig-. 26. IS. Maria Maggiore. were given by Nicholas IV. at the end of the thirteenth century^who also adorned the upper part of the front with mosaics of similarcharacter. The nave is covered by a coffered ceiling richly paintedand gilded ; ^ the aisles are covered with barrel vaults. The majestic…
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