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 317
d by pilasters, , whose faces, forming the jambs of thearch, are decoratedwith square panels,each enclosing agroup of small fig-ures, and by a small-er column covered,like the outer ones,with foliage of Byz-antine character, butmore delicate and inlower relief. The lin-tel of the opening iscovered… … Fig-. 218. Pisa. Section of Baptistery. of irregular forms and sizes.^ The cornice above the lintel has arow of beautiful half length figures of saints holding tablets in theirhands. In the tympanum are three full-length statues, of the sizeof life, the Virgin and Child in the centre. The reliefs…
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