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 132
dwinter respectively, and of which one known as La Fa vara or Mare-dolce, the winter palace, is still to be seen in a much ruined condi-tion. It was an extensive building, with a frontage of some onehundred and fifty feet, rectangular in plan, and presenting on theexterior the high unbroken walls… … Fig. 316. Palermo. Torre della Ninfa. 116 architecturp: in italy arches in three orders without columns or other ornament, whichcharacterize all the buildings of its class. A chapel occupies a por-tion of one side, which shows some interesting and unusual features.It is a rectangle (Fig. 317)…
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