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 269
ally, if we may believeMessrs. Verdier and Cattois, above these battlements, the openingsbetween which served as windows to light an additional story.^ In the Palazzo Grotanelli, there are but two stories, the first veryhigh with an arcade of nine narrow pointed arches oversegmental openings,… … story, which is ofbrick, are of twolights not cusped,with a pierced cir-cle in the head ofthe bearing - arch.The cornice has avery fine decoratedarched corbel-tablewith shields in reliefunder the arches.Above the corniceare strong squarebattlements, which,like the cornice,are decorated simplybut…
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