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 274
setti the second story arcade restson very small coupled columns not more than four inches in diame-ter, with simple capitals. (Fig. 184.) The interest of these buildings resides, however, less in their gen-eral design than in their characteristic decoration, which, althoughsparing in quantity,—far… … Fig. 181. Ciborium of S. Ambrogio, Milan. are of several quite distinct forms, and vary not less in detail, fromthe braided lily capital so familiar to all students of St. Markschurch, to the simple high concave twin capitals of the coupledcolumns in the upper arcade of the Casa Farsetti. The…
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