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 73
figures, of which the subject and action are hard to determine. The outer archivolt of the central door at the cathedral of Trani is of precisely similar character. At Ruvo the central doorway is of remarkable character. (Fig-277.) The beasts, both below and above the flanking col-umns, are quite… … Ruvo. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 59 may have had a symbolical significance, as in many cases they standalone without supporting anything of a constructional nature, as inthe window in the west front of Trani. This is more often the casewith the columns of windows than with those of doors. But inS.…
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