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 26
ature of the east front, andits importance is announced byits rich and profuse decoration.The wall between the towersis finished by a thin horizontalcornice, above which rises the oc-tasfonal lantern or dome whichsurmounts the central bay of thetransept. Its high wall is dividedsomewhat unequally… … Fig. 241. Bari Cathedral, East End. with carving of a rather nondescript character, above which onlythe flat segcment of the dome is visible.^ The even more interesting church of San Nicola, commonlyascribed to the Normans (who doubtless reedified it in B^ri,1087, when the bones of the saint were…
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