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A history of architecture (1906)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909, Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln, 1859-1923 · New York, The Baker & Taylor Company · leaf 192

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STYLES RESULTING FROM ANCIENT ART [Bk. VII 142 hires and parapets, cherubs, angels carrying attributes, and the rest, all rendered in a deceptive way with imitations of relief and expressing the most remote and inappropriate designs, that it is more painful than instructive. A view of the choir and… … 12$: — Capital of S. Vitale (see Fig. 122). (From photo.) the triple archway. The subject of this is the Emperor Justinian with his attendants. The decorative character of these is perhaps surpassed by the wonderful mosaics in S. Apollinare Nuovo, described below, but considered in its place on the…

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