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 198
The lower half of the front isoccupied entirely by a great triple-arched porch, flanked by strongangle buttresses, which act as the bases of light towers ending instumpy spires which rise abov^e the roofs. The central arch is round,the others are pointed, and all are deeply splayed, with… … Fig. 355. Siena. Cathedral. in three compartments, answering to the breadth of nave and aisles,and separated by turrets ending in groups of enriched pinnacles.The central compartment is filled by a great round window without the progress of the work, reserving-, however, the right to make a…
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