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 271
stic of the best Italian 256 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY work, not only of this period, but also of the Renaissance as well,and never to be seen in the same degree in any other country, exceptperhaps in some instances in Spain. Of the early palaces of Venice I have given some account in a pre-vious… … the Gothic palaces socalled, nearly all areof the fourteenth cen-tury. There is littleof the Gothic charac-ter about them exceptthe pointed archesand the tracery oftheir fa9ades. Thesame simple princi-ples of compositionwhich we traced inthe Byzantine palacefronts of the eleventhcentury are to be…
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