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 128
ng them a Saracenic vault covering theobservatory, and portions of the exterior wall to the south, showingthree stages, the upper faced by a tall blind arcade of narrow pointedinterlacing arches on engaged colonnettes, and something like aVenetian battlement crowning the wall. Descriptions more or… … Fisr. 315. Monreale. Cloisters. 114 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Torre Pisana, Torre Greca, etc., — its banquet halls and state apart-ments in the central building, its offices for business and clericalwork in the wings, its courtyard laid out as a garden and enclosedby arcaded galleries in which…
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