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 222
on an anvil: aman who struggles between two dragons ; a horseman in conflictwith a monstrous dragon, — such are the subjects, dear to the Lom-bard sculptor, which make up these remarkable decorations. Portionsof this sculpture are shown in Figs. 126 and 127. The executionis of the rudest… … Fig. 129. S. Giovanni in Borgo, Pavia. Capital of Nave. these sculptures are the evidence, are in the highest degree interest-ing-. These men were above all original; there was no copying ofclassic subjects or styles — they carvedwhat was in their minds, and the spiritof their work is curiously…
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