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 203
shows, as I have said, duringfive hundred years a steady adhesion to the original type. The twotowers of the cathedral of Novara, probably nearly as old as anynow existing, going back perhaps as far as 730, rising ajiparently outof the roof of the narthex, but really from the end of the outer… … Fig. 111. Tower of S. Satiro. THE LOMBARD ROMANESQUE 173 111 the tower of Cremona cathedral, of which the lower half is butlittle older than those of Novara, dating from 754, the stages aredivided by corbel-tables, and the angles are emphasized by pilasterstrips, which in the older portion are…
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