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 291
square rises froman angle of the build-ing to the height ofone hundred andseventy feet withoutother feature than aplain round arch ineach face of the bel-fry. (Fig. 429.) The finest portionof the Bargello is theinterior court, anoblique quadrangleof about sixty - fivefeet, surrounded on Fig. 428.… … ft t 1 I I V I I I I CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 275 moulded bases. In its grand scale, its vigor and simplicity of design,and its beauty of detail, this arcade is a characteristic example of thebest civil architectureof Florence in its bestdays. Above it, onone side of the court,the open arcade andgallery…
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