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 32
the back of the arcade dividesthe gallery into separate loggie. The small round arches are heavilymoulded, and rest on columns of an extraordinary character. Theshafts are of uniform size and length, but show a great varietyof ornament, with capitals of greatly exaggerated size and heightspreading… … Fig. 245. Bitonto Cathedral. 16 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY and vegetable, in which the wild and fantastic Lombard spirit isjilainly predominant. I have called them capitals, but they mightwith as much exactness be called stilt-blocks, since the top of theshaft is broadened out, — yet without the…
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