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 96
n wealth, and theimmense stimulus to letters and the arts which for centuries made THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 81 Italy the undisputed leader of the civilization of the world, had noparallel in the South. For a brief period, indeed, this brilliantflowering of the genius of Italy was anticipated in the… … Fig. 292. Monreale. Portion of Doors of Bonanno. CHAPTER VISICILIAN ARCHITECTURE Our knowledge of the mediaeval architecture of Sicily begins,singularly enough, with the Norman occupation in the eleventh cen-tury. When we consider the close and continuous connection, bothpolitical and commercial,…
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