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 212
while similarniches at the angles enclose figures of Mercy and Faith — is coveredby a noble pointed arch filled with a group of sculpture in relief repre-senting the baptism of Christ. The moulded and decorated archivoltis enclosed within a broad band of sculpture consisting of a series ofbeautiful… … Fig. 365. Venice. Head of Doorway, S. feteiauo. 196 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY in the midst of which were lovely half-length figures, most of whichare destroyed. The finial which crowns the whole is a statue of the Madonna. The deco-ration of this tomb isall in terra-cotta, andwhile a cool…
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