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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 273

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. The next in chronological se-quence was the tomb of Sta. Costanza, daughter ofConstantine, called at present the Baptistery of Sta.Agnese, after which were built the more elaboratetypes of San Stephano Rotondo, Sti. Angeli in Peru-gia (Fig. 95). and gorgeous San Vitale at Ravenna(Plate XXVTI),… … Fig. 96.—Specimen of Lombard archi-tecture. LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE. 251 many other baptisteries of the time felt it no dis-grace to imitate this gem of early Christian art. During the seventh century the Lombards, havingmade their way through Germany from the shoresof the Baltic, overran the whole of…

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