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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 236

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lanned openings were utilized, and the brick walls and marble fittings of the round-arched, semi-Byzantine style of the tenth century were re- vealed. Drawings were made which were deposited in the Civic Museum of Venice 24 and some of these are reproduced in the great work published by Ongania.25… … 169 — Restoration of the twelfth-century front of S. Mark's Church, Venice. (From Ongania.) too elaborately adorned, too much a museum of mosaics, precious marbles, and alabaster, and pieces brought from far of delicate, ancient sculpture, to be overhauled in any such radical fashion. Moreover, the…

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