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 201
elt course, notover the piers of the lower story, butover the haunches of the side doorwayarches. At Orvieto the superiority ofthe central compartment is maintainedthroughout, and the buttresses whichdivide it from the side compartments start from the ground, and arecontinued through the whole… … Fig. 358. Orvieto. Cathedral. THE GOTHIC 187 arcade below the rosewindow is not car-ried beyond the cen-tral compartment.At Orvieto the ar-cade is made moreimportant, and iscontinued across thewhole front, greatlyto the advantage ofthe design. Theseare but examples ofthe superiority of thedesign of…
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