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 242
century. In its facade, which was faced withmarble towards the end of the century, the old forms were retainedfor the most part, but much enrichment was added, and this was allof a pronounced Gothic character. A row of five niches over thecentral doorway containing statues is decorated with… … Fiof. 387. Messina. Window in Cathedral. 228 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY of the middle division, flanking the row of niches just mentioned, areenriched by deep hollow jambs with small statues on corbels. But nowhere in the north — nowhere, indeed, in Italy — can therebe found a purer or more beautiful…
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