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 84
ROMANESQUE 67 This interesting work is contemporary with the pulpit, both dating,according to an inscription, from 1260.^ One of the most richly adorned pulpits is that of the cathedral ofRavello. (Fig. 283.) It is nearly contemporary with thelast mentioned, thouo^h somewhat later. Six lions… … Fig. 283. Ravello. Pulpit in Cathedral. cornice of taller coarse leafage. The panels are filled with mosaicrelieved on a ground of white marble, giving a remarkable bright-ness and clearness of effect, and the geometrical pattern is enrichedby varied pictorial representations, as of parrots in the…
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