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 228
them is shown, holding down a monstrous griffin witha birds beak, and ending foul in many a scaly fold, with a headwhich turns and bites the lion in the haunch. Even the bases of columns are not deprived of their share of allthis wealth of scul^^ture. The angle of the plinth bears frequently,as in… … Am .•m Fig. 138. Pavia. Base from S. Michele. In the Lombard churches, it was in its simplest forms an undevelopedbeak or claw, which later became more definite and naturalistic, or ^ And at Ferrara in the great doorway of the cathedral, deeply splayed and richlyornamented, the outer columns rest…
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