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 207
e exteriorof the church, the fa-cade and flanks beingwithout merit, andquite destitute of anyGothic character.But on the east endthe two stages of tallwindows filling thewhole breadth of eachface of the middleapse, which is itselfof great height, theabsence of buttressesat the angles, and thelower… … Fig. 363. Venice. SS. Giovanni e Paolo. THE GOTHIC 193 line of the flankingchajjels, in which thewindows are dividedby two tiansomsinstead o£ one, asin the central apse.In SS. Giovanni ePaolo, the brick cor-nice which dividesthe two stages of thecentral apse is some-what more elaboratethan in the…
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