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 218
, thesame feeling for broaddecorative forms andcolor effects whichdistinguished theTuscan or CentralRomanesque fromthe Romanesque ofLombardy — whichmade San Miniatoor the cathedral ofPisa or the greatchurches of Luccadiffer so widely fromthe contemporary churches of Pavia or Padua or Milan —… … Fig. 371. Pistoia. Baptistery. 204 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY the cathedral of Florence, remained as cold and bare as the severestof the Romanesque churches, and with much less of variety and in-terest than these. In SantaCroce, indeed, all decoration,whether interior or exterior,was put out of the…
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