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 224
century, when a richly ornamented butcommonplace design by the Chevalier Fabbris was adopted in com-petition and carried out, the ceremony of unveiling- taking* place in1887. The other exterior walls are treated in the Florentine man-ner, of which San Miniato, the baptistery, and Santa Croce… … Florence. Cathedral. six horizontal rows of panels, the borders being of dark green ser-pentine, enclosing- narrow rectangles of white marble. The effect, inspite of its richness, is one of great monotony. (Fig. 375.) Theopenings are few, but are decorated with much profusion of carving. 1…
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