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 126
frieze composed of a series of circlesenclosing half-length figures of angels. The whole vault of themiddle apse is occupied as at Cefalu by a gigantic half-length figureof Christ, which dominates the whole church. Below it, on the cir-cular wall of the apse, are two rows of standing figures of… … Fig. 312. Monreale. General View of Cathedral. cathedral of Cefalii, show a distinct advance in drawing and inmechanical execution over the earlier work.^ ^ Gravina thus describes the method employed in Sicily in the execution of the mosaicsas being at once very expeditious and calculated to ensure…
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