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 70
nic columns of white marbleand granite, 25 feet high, with narrow intervals, carrying a horizontalentablature, with mosaic frieze and decorated cornice, above whichrises a clerestory wall, with flat Corinthian pilasters over the columnsbelow, and pierced with large round-headed windows, under which… … Fig. 26. k5. Maria Maggiore. were given by Nicholas IV. at the end of the thirteenth century,who also adorned the upper part of the front with mosaics of similarcharacter. The nave is covered by a coffered ceiling richly paintedand gilded ; ^ the aisles are covered with barrel vaults. The majestic…
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