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 285
nd on the entrance fronta similar window of three lights, under two interlacing ogee arches.What is not less unusual, the exterior disposition expresses the inte-rior, where one half the building is occupied by a large hall on eachstory, the remainder being divided into smaller apartments. On… … Fig. 423. Taormina. Badia Vecchia. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 269 a low ogee arch.^ The belt-course on which rest the windows of theprincipal story is a characteristic example of decoration, with shieldsin the frieze between narrow bands of delicate inlay. The extent to which the taste of individual…
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