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 115
^ The exterior has also suffered greatlyfrom successive changes, mostly earlierthan the transformation of the interiorunder Fuga, though the Renaissance domeadded by him is the most incongruous ofall the additions which have been made. The west front is, in its present condi-tion, a singular but… … Fig. 305. Palermo. Cathedral. ^ Even the dry and prosaic Mothes grows indignant over this atrocious spoliation. Hisaccount is so complete an exposition of the treatment to which countless beautifulchurches of the Middle Ages have been subjected under the name of restoration, duringthe seventeenth…
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