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 112
y example in Sicily. The central apse and one of the two groined bays of the centraltribune are still covered — walls and roof — with the original goldmosaics. All the others have disappeared. Those which remainconsist entirely of single standing figures of saints and apostles.The great half-length… … Fig. 303. Cefalii. Interior of Cathedral. wainscoting, now of rich parti-colored marbles. The greater por-tion of the interior of the church has been cruelly modernized, butthis cannot destroy the striking effect of the extraordinary loftychoir, with its high groined vault, opening from the flat…
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