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 89
riginal mosaics ofthe fifth century; those on the walls of the central tower and the endwalls of the arms bearing- figures of apostles or saints, while those ofthe vaults are of geometrical patterns very graceful in design and softand harmonious in color. The original mosaic pavement no… … Fii;. 41. M;iu.s()kUiu of (i;ill;i Ihuidia. (lower than of old, by reason of the considerable rise in the level ofthe ground) is relieved by a continuous blind arcade of round arches (a(•liara(t(M-istic feature of the Ravenna churches, and showing alreadythe beginning of tlie transition to the…
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