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 80
of Italy, little of sculp-tural decoration is to be found— less, indeed, in the Souththan in the North, since thecapitals are to a great extenteither taken from the ruins ofclassic buildings, or, where ori-ginal, follow more or less closelythe classic models. But theGreek artists found an ample… … 64 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY choir. In these there is seldom any considerable admixture of theLombard feeling, except that the chairs, as well as the columnswhich support the pulpits, often rest on lions or other beasts, gener-ally of a much less grotesque type than in purely Lombard work. An exception…
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