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 214
ote plainly the weakening of Gothic feeling, and the strongleaning towards the symmetry and stateliness of the Renaissance.Mocenigo died in 1423, but here, as in the Morosini tomb nearly halfa century earlier, thecentral feature is thenoble recumbent fig-ure of the Doge, uponthe sarcophagus.The… … martialin Romanarmor. Above thesarcophagus, theusual pointed arch isreplaced for the firsttime by a high tent-like drapery, thesides of which aredrawn aside by twoangels, and relievedagainst a wall-screen composed of two ranges of arcades, the upperrange forming a series of shallow niches like…
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