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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 324

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as aperiod of great activity in Lucca.That a stvle of architecture sostriking and so graceful as thePisan style should exert a strong-influence on the architecture ofthe cities so nearly contiguousas Lucca and Pistoia was inevi-table. Yet it is interesting tosee what modifications the stylewas… … 4^.v:..;||,h...:iiip- Fig. Il-t. Lucca. Cathedral. 762 by a certain Lombard Teutprand and his wife, Gunipranda, butsubstantially rebuilt towards the close ofthe twelfth century. The cathedral has astill more ancient history, having beenbuilt by St. Frigidianus as early as 560,and promptly destroyed…

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