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 196
. The lower half of the front isoccupied entirely by a great triple-arched porch, flanked by strongangle buttresses, which act as the bases of light towers ending instumpy spires which rise above the roofs. The central arch is round,the others are pointed, and all are deeply splayed, with… … Fig. 355. Siena. Cathedral. in three compartments, answering to the breadth of nave and aisles,and separated by turrets ending in groups of enriched pinnacles.The central compartment is filled by a great round window without the progress of the work, reserving, however, the right to make a…
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