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 187
ches we havehitherto been considering are the circular and polygonal buildingswhich arose with them all over the Lombard region. They are, forthe most part, baptisteries, the circular form having been with theLombards, not less than with the early Christians, the accepted formfor that purpose. Now… … Fig-. 98. Brescia. Duonio Vecchio. The oldest of the Loiiibai-d circular churches, as it is also probably„ the oldest of all the authentic Lombard monuments which Brescia, Duomo remain to us in anythinc: like completeness, is that known Vecchio. . » 1 as the old cathedral at Brescia, the Duomo…
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