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 200
oceeded with diligently. The new building wasbegun in Februaryof the next year,and seems to havegone forward withvigor, in spite offamine and pesti-lence, until in 1348Siena was strickenwith the frightfulplague which carriedoff in a single sum-mer eighty thousandof her people, andparalyzed for a… … Fig-. 356. Siena. East End of Cathedral. 184 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY weaknesses in the piers and vaulting, and the experts by whomthe examination was made recommended that a considerable partof them should be taken down. This was the end of the si:)lendidproject. Yet, as late as 1435, we find the…
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