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 228
ages, of which the two lower are ofequal height and precisely similar design, with two beautiful two-light windows in each face, of the utmost grace and delicacy of pro-portion and ornament, with traceried balconies and gabled arches ;while the third or final stage, that of the belfry, is of much… … Fig-. 376. Florence. First Door, South Flank. 212 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY of the tower are reinforced by octagonal buttresses rising fromground to summit, and all the strings and cornices are carried roundthem. The face of the wall is everywhere crossed by a panellingof white and green marbles…
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