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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 289

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quare rises froman angle of the build-ing to the height ofone hundred andseventy feet withoutother feature than aplain round arch ineach face of the bel-fry. (Fig. 429.)^ The finest portionof the Bargello is theinterior court, anoblique quadrangleof about sixty - fivefeet, surrounded on Fig. 428.… … CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 275 moulded bases. In its grand scale, its vigor and simplicity of design,and its beauty of detail, this arcade is a characteristic example of thebest civil architectureof Florence in its bestdays. Above it, onone side of the court,the open arcade andgallery are repeated,but with…

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