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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 38

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and seemto me improbable, as the Byzantine impulse from which the domes arose was muchstronger u\ South Italy during the ninth than during the eleventh century. ■^ ISchulz, i., p. 55, pi. 5 ; Mothes, p. 311). m B LJ V [ j ^ LJ B ■ ^/ 0 ^ i 1 r ♦ ♦ ■ .:...-■-.^■^^. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 21 roofs… … Fig. 252. Stilo. La Cattolica. external aspect of the building was that of a Greek cross with a highdome at the intersection of the arms.^ But perhaps the most thoroughly Byzantine building in SouthItaly is the little church at Stilo called La Cattolica. (Fig. gtijo252.) It is a square of about…

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