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 135
1 Mothes, p. 532. 118 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY height of the arch, which thus appears stilted to an exaggerateddegree. The upper stories have each a range of blind arches veryslightly pointed, four in the second story and seven in the third,nearly twenty feet high. In the lower half of each arch was… … Fig-. 319. Palermo. Story Plans of La Zisa. of which were filled by Arabic inscriptions in the Cufic character,extremely decorative in effect, and enclosed, as in the baths at Cefal,between two horizontal bands of Byzantine carving. All this hasdisappeared. The interior amply atoned for the…
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