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 280
all were enjoined to beg, borrow, orsteal whatever materials could be made available in the great work.^ Tliosii readers wlio hold to Mr. Knskins idea of the Venetian character in the day.s ofthe greatness of the Rei)nblic will perhaps be shocked or iudit;nant at the tone of thisstatement. But it… … Fig. 1S7. Venice. House in Kio di Ca Foscari. The response was immediate and hearty ; a great store of material,old and new, was gathered together from the outlying colonies ofVenice and from all the Eastern countries with which her commerceconnected her. The greater portion of this was from the…
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