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 309
ainly of the thirteenth cen-tury. The former has a long frontage, with much the same variationin design which we have seen at Todi, and of a uniform height offour stories, though differently divided. The smaller and older por-tion has on the ground floor three high and plain open pointedarches,… … Fi-. 448. Padua. Palazzo della Ragione CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 295 but much larger, with cusped openings and pointed bearing-arches,and the wall is of rough-faced stonework like the Palazzo Vecchio inFlorence. (Fig. 447.) The Palazzo dei Priori is a high, narrowmass of stonework offour stories with…
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