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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 344

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is perhaps the earliest example of that feature in Italy.The circle occupies the whole height of the stage and is set in a square,of which the four angles are charg^ed each with a single figure in re-lief; the two low figures being those of winged lions, the upper beingon the left a bird with… … Fior. 237. Toscanella. S. Pietro. window enclosed within a broad band of decoration strongly Byzan-tine in character, — that of the left hand window consisting of aseries of circles, each containing a half-length human figure in relief,and that on the right of a meanderino- vine. Fraoments of…

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