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 262
THE BYZANTINE INFLUENCE 231 so impeded and limited by the narrow strip of sea which dividesthe east and west shores. In the cathedral of Torcello, dating originally from the seventhcentury, but probably restored if not quite rebuilt at thebeginning of the eleventh, are preserved some… … Fi-. 16y. Torcello. Panel of Choir Fence. while the character of the acanthus leafage and its disposition has astrongly Byzantine aspect. But the stronger block capital, of whichan example is given in Fig. 168, is the more usual form. The Greekartist is, however, here more clearly revealed in the…
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