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 93
original mosaics ofthe fifth century; those on the walls of the central tower and the endwalls of the arms bearing figures of apostles or saints, while those ofthe vaults are of geometrical patterns very graceful in design and softand harmonious in color. The original mosaic pavement no… … Fig. 41. Mausoleum of Galla Plaeidia. (lower than of old, by reason of the considerable rise in the level ofthe ground) is relieved by a continuous blind arcade of round arches (acharacteristic feature of tlie Ravenna churches, and showing alreadythe beginning of the transition to the Romanesque of…
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