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 313
e. The twothree-light windowsabove are similar incharacter to those ofthe Palazzo Commu-nale at Piacenza, except for the enclosing archivolts of terra-cotta.(Fig. 449.) The ringhiera — which is, as I have before explained, the balconyfrom which the decrees of the government were promulgated and… … Fig. 452. Angle of Or San Michele. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 299 with the floor of the great hall of the second or principal story, it wasentered, not from one of the windows of the hall, which were com-monly set rather high in the walls, but from a small and inconspicu-ous doorway below them. The…
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