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 261
in walls are naw pierced with six or seven stories of Renaissance windows to fit thebuilding for its mod-ern uses. The castleat Bari is a noble ex-ample of this earlyconstruction. A su-perb square tower ofrough but admirablestone work projects itswhole breadth fromthe castle wall. Walland tower… … Fig. 400. Bari. Angle of Castle. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 245 wall adds greatly to its imposing effect. (Fig-. 400.) The court stillshows its fine round-arched porch projecting into the square, its mas-siA^e columns having large Byzantine-leafed capitals with stilt-blocks.A broad stone stair in an angle…
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