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Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
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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otiveof two birds back to back.Each arch encloses adeeply splayed panel, inthe upper portion of whichis a long round-archedwindow with splayedjambs and heavy rollmouldings. Over the ar-cade is a rich belt onwhich is a fine eaves gal-lery of the usual form,but of greater than theusual size. The wall is finished with a very richly decorated cornice.The whole work is of stone. The choir of San Abbondio at Como, which has in exterior designs Abbon- bttlc relation to the remainder of the church, is interest-dio. Como jj^jy jj^ several respects. Issuing from between the two talltowers which terminate the inner aisles, its plan consists, as will berememlxred, of two square groined bays and a semicircular apse ofnearly (Mpial height. A thin decorated string-course divides the wallat mid-height into two stages, and slender engaged shafts, with base Tlu (latf is doubtless tli.it of the rfbuildiiij; of the church, whose orij^^inul founda-tion goes back to the ninth century. See Mothes, p. .Jlil.
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Fig. ST. S. Abbondio, (ouio; East Kud. TllK lA)MliAUU iiUMA.NLh^LK Ml and capital risin;;- fioiii a plinth-courst lo llic aiilird coilx-l tal)l«; attho eaves, divide it vertically into l)ays, three on each Hank of thechoir and live on the; apse. Tn each hay of the flanks, except thatn(>arcst the tower, and in each story, then; is a narrow ronnd-archedwindow of the usnal L()nd)ard form, bnt with very unnsual decora-tion. In the bays of the ai)se, the windows are alternately in thelower and npper stories. The windows vary in detail, that in tliecentral bay of the apse being the richest. The narrow openinital, the latter having the same motive with thoseof )\Iodena and Bergamo above mentioned,—two birds standingback to back with extended wings, — and which is snrronnded by aborder of sculpture in relief, as broad as th

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