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 204
the forms of Eastern art whichhad characterized the architecture of Venice until the end of thetwelfth century had now come to an end. In none of the churchesof the Gothic period is there any marked trace of Oriental or Byzan-tine influence. And it must be added that the distinction,… … Fig. 360. Orvieto. Cathedral. of the masters of the Renaissance ; but the interval between theByzantine and the Renaissance periods is, so far as church-building 1 It will be remembered that at the beginning of the thirteenth century the questionwas seriously considered of abandoning Venice, even…
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