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 281
e stages, the low-est of dressed stonewith two simple seg-mental-arched open-ings, the voussoirshaving a pointed ex-trados. The secondand third stories ofbrick are alike inform, each having apair of two-light pointed windows under a pointed bearing arch witha circle in the head. The decoration is… … Fig-. 419. House, San Gimignano. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 265 edo:e - decoration ofthe small arches andthe band of ornamentenclosing the bearingarch are of softlytinted terra - cotta.Under the projectingeaves of the roof is alow attic story lightedby two perfectly plainsquare openings. These few…
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