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 121
h figures in the centre of the faces andcornucopias occupying the place of volutes, have been thought tohave belonged to a temple of Ceres. (Fig. 311.) All the capitalsare capped by very large stilt-blocks, a rare feature in the Normanchurches. The flat clerestory has a large pointed window over… … Fig. 308. Palermo. Chiesa deiVespri. improbability that such a church was built and decorated in six years. Similarly in thecase of the cathedral of Cefalu, of which the diploma of Hugo, archbishop of Messina,says the first stone was laid at Pentecost in 1131, while King Roger, writing in…
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