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 118
tion; the wall being crossed bybands of various colored marbles, and crowned by a richly decoratedfrieze with an arched corbel-table, and a battlement which recallsthat of the ducal palace at Venice. In the square transept end, withits single window in the middle of a pointed blind arcade, as in… … Fig. 306. Palermo. Cathedral. 102 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY interlacing- arcade, not on columns as at Cefalii, but with a broad,flat, decorated border carried all around each arch. Within thesharp pointed arches are lower and blunter blind arches, withoutopenings, but decorated with bands of marble…
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