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 212
ong martialfigures in Romanarmor. Above thesarcophagus, theusual pointed arch isreplaced for the firsttime by a high tent-like drapery, thesides of which aredrawn aside by twoangels, and relievedagainst a wall-screen composed of two ranges of arcades, the upperrange forming a series of shallow… … Fig. 367. Venice. Tomb of Morosini. 198 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY The later tombs of the great Venetians depart farther and fartherfrom the gravity and propriety which in the midst of the utmostrichness of ornamentation were characteristic of those dating beforetlie middle of the fifteenth century,…
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