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 271
o Venice.The building was ofslight construction,and long neglect hadby the middle of thenineteenth centurybrought it into sucha state of decay thatit was only saved fromcomplete destructionby a restoration whichwas practically a re-building. Fig. 183 istaken from a photo-graph of the facadebefore… … Fig. 178. S. Abbondio, Como. Window in Apse. and is divided into a central portion in two stories of long open ar-cades, flanked by square pavilions of greater height, but not projectingfrom the line of the central portion. The lower arcade, of which thefloor is raised very little above the water…
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