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 194
the architect and the overseers, who wereto be engaged on the building. Bishop and clergy exercised noauthority over it. The lay democracy were the rulers in all thatconcerned it. ^ No more striking illustration could be cited of thetransformation which the thirteenth century had wrought in the… … Fig-. 353. Siena Cathedral. The architect under whom the cathedral was begun is not known.As the work went on, it was for perhaps twenty-five years under thedirection of monks from the neighboring abbey of S. Galgano, whoacted one after another as magister operis lapidum. ^ The planis cruciform,…
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