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 231
soonspent. But althoughlittle more was accom-plished, it was only acentury late* that theidea of completing itwas definitively aban-doned. In 1647 thebuilding was finishedby the addition of a semicircular apse of somewhat mean aspect tothe great nave. In the mean time attempts had been made to com-… … Fig-. 379. Bologna. Sculpture of Doorway, S. Petronio. THE GOTHIC 217 plete at least thefa9ade, which hadretained, above themarbles of dellaQuerela, the roughwall of coarse brick-work which closedthe nave. Some-where about 1535,when the Renais-sance had quite es-tablished its suprem-acy, a…
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