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 323
it are of bronze,and a group of three water-nymphs rise from its centre. Nothing-can exceed the noble reserve with which the decoration is treatedthroughout, and the expression of repose, elegance, and simplicityis perfect. A fountain of very similar character is that in the great square atSiena… … about thirty-five feetlong, enclosed onthree sides by a veryelegant low wall witha series of broadniches filled with sit-ting statues of greatbeauty, the piersbetween and alsothe continuous baseon which they restbeing panelled anddecorated with re-liefs. This beauti-ful work, havingfallen into…
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