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 98
THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 81 Italy the undisputed leader of the civilization of the world, had noparallel in the South. For a brief period, indeed, this brilliantflowering of the genius of Italy was anticipated in the neighboringisland of Sicily, under the extraordinary mixture of races which… … Fig. 292. Monreale. Portion of Doors of Bonaimo. CHAPTER VI SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE Our knowledge of tlie mediaeval architecture of Sicily begins,singularly enough, with the Norman occupation in the eleventh cen-tury. When we consider the close and continuous connection, bothpolitical and commercial,…
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