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 204
n as one of the most brilliant exam-ples of the lavish use of decorative sculpture by the Italian masters,and of the absolute contrast in their method with that of the North-ern builders. The whole of the ornament is treated as surface orna-ment. The square frame of small quatrefoil panels which… … Fig. 359. Orvieto. Capital of Nave Pier. 188 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY geometrical mosaic, and by the mosaic figures of the four greatbishops in the spandrils of the circle. On the sides of the windowand above it are ranges of niches containing standing figures whichare also, though in high relief,…
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