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 60
e whole breadth of the church andsomething more ; the central arch round, the others slightly pointed,supported on strong piers with jamb-shafts with Byzantine capitals;the archivolts in two orders, and covered, especially those of themiddle arch, with carving of moderate richness, but with little… … Fig. 267. Casauria. Porch of S. Clemente. elegant string, which is carried aci-oss the front, and still farther tothe horizontal arched and decorated corbel-table which makes thecornice of the uncompleted fa9ade. The upper shafts spring fromthe back of monsters which rest on pedestals supported on…
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