A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 400
added afterwards, and, though unsymmet-rical, assists in relieving a design which would otherwise run the riskof being monotonous. Bk. VIII. Ch. VI. BITTONTO— BARI. 379 It was, however, on their entrance facades that the architects ofSouthern Italy lavished their utmost care. The central doorways… … West Front of the Church of San Nicolo in Bari. (From a sketch by A. J. K. Gawen, Esq.) terminates in a circular rose-window filled with tracery. As exem-plified in the front of Bittonto Cathedral (Woodcut No. 807), such acomposition is not deficient in richness, though hardly pleasing as…
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