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 78
UTHERN ROMANESQUE 61 ferred to a broadarched window di-rectly above it, inwhich the arch issurrounded by adecorated archivolt,and flanked by slen-der columns restingon crouching beastsof great size, andsupporting otherbeasts, from whichspring the cornicesof the gable whichsurmounts the arch.A very… … Fig. 278. Bari. Apse Window in Cathedral. capitals of the great piers of the arcade, and carry on their capitalsgrotesque beasts, upon which rest the smaller upper columns, whichalso are surmounted by beasts. The arch-head is enclosed withina broad smooth band of marble, quite without decoration,…
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