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 242
e decoration, in-deed, which was tobe presumably thepride and glory of thechurch, has provedits bane. It is per-haps the most striking example in existence of extravagant andmisapplied ornament. It is not only the two thousand statues ofwhich the guide-books give us the count, nor the vegetable… … Fig. 386. Messina. Central Doorway of Cathedral. 226 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY sharp gables with crockets and finials and pinnacles, till the eyewearies of the wasteful and ridiculous excess. All is dividedand subdivided and frittered, — nowhere is any repose, nowhere anydignity or simplicity. The west…
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