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 213
developed, andperfectly expresses the function ofthe capital as a bearer of a heavyload. The low square block issurmounted by a solid abacus ashioh as itself, in which the mould-ing is a straight line, the profilebeing nearly that of the GreekDoric capital. The sculpture isByzantine, and covers… … THE LOMBARD ROMANESQUE 183 ital by animal forms, of which the heads are commonly made to servein place of volutes, as in San Ambrogio at Milan. (Figs. 119, 120,121.) Human figures, beasts, birds, and combinations of these areavailed of, and the variety both of subject and treatment is well-nigh…
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