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 104
he arrangement re-peats precisely, upona small scale, butmore completely, thatof S. Sofia at Con-stantinople.2 In all these in-stances the Normanrulers turned theirbacks on the archi-tectural traditions,not only of theirown country, but ofthat country in whichtheir career of con-quest had begun,… … 90 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY allowed their monuments to be built in the style and with the deco-ration familiar to the various elements of the people they had cometo govern. The use of the pointed arch was here first brought to theknowledge of the new rulers, and became at once general with them.But it…
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