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 264
andtowers are gone, and the great octagonal court is choked with fallenmasonry and other rubbish. The single entrance doorway consistsof a pointed arch with columnar jambs covered with a rather flatgable, and ornamented with sculptures in red marble. Far above isa round-arched window with a solid… … Fig. 405. Mantua. Palazzo Buonaeolsi. The steady amelioration of the conditions of city life which hadprevailed during the reign of the feudal system was reflected ^hein the city streets in the palaces which the great families Palaces.built for themselves during the fourteenth and fifteenth…
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