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 226
95 under which is the crushed and prostrate figure of a hehuetted knightwith shield and lance. (See Fig. 136.) Occasionally the grotesqueness disappears, and is replaced by aserious realism, as in another capital in the nave of Parma, in whichtwo lielmetted horsemen meet with raised swords. (Fig.… … Fig. 136. Modena Cathedral. Entrance to Crypt. the backs of lions or other beasts, often of monstrous and grotesquecharacter, generally standing, but sometimes sitting or crouching.Piacenza, Parma, Modena, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara, Bergamo, offer 190 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY in their o-reat churches…
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