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 72
onof Ragusa, who lived at the begin-ning of the tenth century, but itis not conceivable that a porch ofso highly developed a design wasbuilt at so early a date. The pro-jection of the outer pilasters fromthe wall makes it probable that theporch was rebuilt at least two cen-turies later, and the… … Fig. 215. Matera. Bands of Doorway. 58 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY ways of the fa9adehave a broad bandof beautiful andintricate Byzantinesculpture springingfrom corbels in theform of beasts, andenclosing the arch-head. Many de-tached pieces ofsculjature are scat-tered over the fa-9ade, for the mostpart…
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