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 155
e of rude and heavy design,with massive round piers supporting ponderous arches and low groinedvaults. The latest, that of Chiaravalle di Castagnola, is of muchlighter and more advanced construction, and is probably the earliestexisting example of the introduction in Italy of the forms, and to…
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