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 90
ine generally very simple, all executed in niello; that is to say,with incised lines filled in with silver or some other precious material;the panels being enclosed in a frame or border decorated with moreor less richness. In the earliest of these doors, those of the cathedral of Amalfi, made in… … Fi^. 287. Chair at Monte Sant Ang-elo. filled each by a single standing figure in niello, of pretty rudedesign and execution ; the subjects are Christ the Virgin, St. Peter,and St. Andrew. In the doors of the grotto church of St. Michael at MonteSant Angelo,^ ten years later than those of Amalfi,…
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