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 244
ntire and frank adoption of those principles, and an equally sincererenunciation of the traditions of the earlier Italian bviilding. Butthose traditions were too strong to be overcome, and the constanteffort of the architects was to use the new style in a way to conformto them so far as possible.… … Fig. 388. Girgenti. Lower Part of Tower. CHAPTER IX CIVIL ARCHITECTURE Thus fai^, in our survey of the early architecture of Italy, we havebeen concerned nearly exclusively with the buildings of the Church.In the destruction which so often overtook the cities of Italy duringthe dark ages through…
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