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 68
great porches, extending across the whole frontof the church, are, in the South as in the North, excep- Doorwaytional, the characteristic treatment of the principal door- torches,ways is one which distinguishes the mediaeval churches of SouthItaly, whether of the Lombard or the Norman age, from all… … Fig-. 271. Ognissanti. Section of Porch, Southern porches are flanked by columns, generally one on eitherside the doorway, but sometimes two or more, as at Altamura, Con-versano, S. Andrea at Barletta, and others, which commonly rest ongrotesque beasts or birds, and which carry the outer arch or…
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