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 276
)lain disks of variously colored marbles. THE byzantinp: influence 24:5 One of the most characteristic of the early Byzantine palaces ofVenice is a house in the Rio di Ca Foscari (Fig. 187), fallen long-since into a ruinous condition, but showing even in ruin much of the … Fiof. 183. Venice. P^ondaco dei Turelii. peculiar grace and charm of the Byzantine decoration. A great cen-tral arch some ten feet in s])an, slightly stilted, is flanked by fourarches on each side of one third its breadth, but so highly stilted thattheir crowns are kept on a level with that of the…
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