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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 247

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urch of S. Vitale at Ravenna. An equally close resemblance between the upper capitals of S. Ser-gius and some capitals in the gynaeceum of S. Sofia would seem tosuggest that the same architect may have controlled both buildings.The two capitals are almost identical in form (those of S. Sofia… … Fig. 15G. S. Sofia. Capital. THE BYZANTINE INFLUENCE 217 shaft is about fourteen inches in diameter ; the capital is dividedhorizontally into two distinct parts, of which the lower is coveredwith perforated basket-work standing nearly or quite free from thebell, while the upper part has in the…

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