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 76
RUVO. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 59 may have had a symbolical significance, as in many cases they standalone without supporting anything of a constructional nature, as inthe window in the west front of Trani. This is more often the casewith the columns of windows than with those of doors. But inS.… … Fig. 277. Ruvo. Central Doorway. 60 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY a grotesque beast, whicli in its turn stands on a corbel three feetabove the ground, — the column carrying on its capital only anotherbeast. The wheel windows in the west fronts are often flanked inthe same way, with sometimes an outer…
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