The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 277
an Michele was at one time con-sidered the most beautiful of the Lombard style. Itwas almost entirely altered and rebuilt in the eleventhand twelfth centuries, but the apse (Fig. 98) and inte-rior still show a number of the features enumerated above. Sta. MariaToscanella (Fig. 99)is a later… … Fig. 100.—Apse of Basilica at Torcello. as an integral part of ecclesiastical edifices. In 774 Charlemagne put an end to the Lombarddynasty, but supplied little to Italy in the shape ofart; and from 875 to the year 1000 the strugglesof rival ecclesiastics and rival princes blocked allarchitectural…
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