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 181
capi-tals of a distinctly French type; and above the arcade is a secondgallery, protected by a low fence wall. It will be seen that the whole design of this interior is of thesimplest character. Except for the gallery arcade even the sternCistercians could not have built with more severe restraint,… … Fig. 344. Assisi. S. Francesco. Lower Church. THE GOTHIC 165 exception of the mo-saic decorations ofPalermo and Venice,from fifty to a hun-dred years earlierthan the chnrch ofAssisi, we must goback to the sixthcentury to find anyexample of such acomplete and con-sistent decoration ofa church…
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