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 192
d the architect and the overseers, who wereto be engaged on the building. Bishop and clergy exercised noauthority over it. The lay democracy were the rulers in all thatconcerned it.^ No more striking illustration could be cited of thetransformation which the thirteenth century had wrought in the… … Fig. 353. Siena Cathedral. The architect under whom the cathedral was begun is not known.As the work went on, it was for perhaps twenty-five years under thedirection of monks from the neighboring abbey of S. Galgano, whoacted one after another as magister operis lapidum. ^ The planis cruciform,…
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