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 252
ttista—all show above their nave columns thiscliaracteristic Byzantine feature, in varying forms. In the firstnamed church, built between 425 and 440, it takes the form of arigid cyma, rising from a flat plate at the base, and projecting morein a line across the church than in the line of the… … It is to be noted that in theseearly examples the capitals them-selves still keep to the classictype, most of them indeed liav-ino- been taken from older build-ings. In S. Agata, however, isa single capital with volutesrolled upwards, evidently madefor the building, and whichmarks the beginning of…
Architecture -- Italy History
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