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 246
eated with great richness and delicacy. (Fig. 388.) 1 It is curious to see the general desigri of this doorway, exaggerated to the point ofabsurdity, in the doorway of S. Giovamii a Carbonero at Naples. THE GOTHIC 229 This survey of the Gothic period in the architecture of Italy,imperfect as it is,… … to the great Gothicmonuments whichhad risen bej^ond theAlps. In materialresources, in intellec-tual development, incivic energy andpride, the Italiancommunities were,during the thirteenthand fourteenth cen-turies, immeasurablyin advance of anyother people in theworld. One wouldsuppose that in…
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