Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London, J. and A. Arch · leaf 445
is reported, are made to turn in their sockets, in order tooffer less resistance to the wind. Though the raking lines admitted in thisfa9ade are evidently intended to give the idea of the sloping roofs of thecentre and side aisles, yet in fact the upper part is a mere screen, risingvery far above… … SAN FREDIANO, 411 columns, and above these there is a high wall with small windows ; thisextent of unadorned, plain surface forms a singular contrast with therichness of the external appearance, where marble and columns are soprofusely lavished. Another curious old church, earlier in its…
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