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 290
height. The lowest is very plain, as usual, withsimple square doorways, with heavy lintel and pointed bearing-arch,and a few small windows set high in the wall. Such a lower storywas well calculated to withstand a vigorous attack from an enemywho knew not gunpowder. In the second story, the piano… … Fig. 427. RaveUo. Court of Casa RufPola. 274 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY of the great windows in the public buildings of Tuscany for thenext hundred years. We find substantially the same design in thePalazzo Vecchio and in Or San Michele. It does not vary greatlyin character, as will be observed, from…
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