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Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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on granite columns, with composite capitals. These arerepeated by two similar columns in the interior of the porch, which,with the arches springing in four directions from their capitals,divide the porch into six bays covered by groined vaulting.^ 1 Scbulz, pi. 70; Mothes, p. 601. ^ Schulz, vol. i., p. 127, pi. xxvi. ; Mothes, pp. 320, 609. The usual controversyhas arisen concerning the age of this interesting porch, as over the similar porches of THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 51 While, however, the great porches, extending across the whole frontof the church, are, in the South as in the North, excep- Doorwaytional, the characteristic treatment of the principal door- torches,ways is one which distinguishes the mediaeval churches of SouthItaly, whether of the Lombard or the Norman age, from all othersof any age or region. The distinction is not so much in the gen-eral forms of the composition, which are not essentially differentfrom those of the Lombard porches of the North. Like those, the
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Fig-. 271. Ognissanti. Section of Porch, Southern porches are flanked by columns, generally one on eitherside the doorway, but sometimes two or more, as at Altamura, Con-versano, S. Andrea at Barletta, and others, which commonly rest ongrotesque beasts or birds, and which carry the outer arch or archesof the door-head, surmounted by a gable, though this feature is oftenwanting. Inside these columns are the square door-jambs, in one, S. Abbondio at Como, and the Badia of Sesto Calende in the North ; Mothes believingthe whole church, including the porch, to belong to the original construction of 802-824,while Schulz declares the whole to be an example of the best and finest period of theNormans. The point is difficult and perhaps impossible to decide ; but as neither Mothesnor Boito assigns an earlier date than late in the eleventh century to the porches ofComo and Sesto Calende, and as the porches of France which are most nearly related tothese are not very remote from them in date (S.

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