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 257
nna, Ferrara, and othercities of the North of Italy are stillto be found houses of which thestreet fronts resemble that shown inFig. 398, taken from Runge,^ andcopied by Mothes, who assigns themto the early part of the twelfth cen-tury. They are singularly modernin design, with three stories, of… … Fig. 398. House at Ravenna. m terra cotta. The distinguishing feature which these houses have in common is the projecting polygonal chimney rising through thecentre of the front. 1 Machiavelli, Istorie Florentine. ^ Backstein Architektur. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 243
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