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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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)le capitals. (Fig. 184.) The interest of these buildings resides, however, less in their gen-eral design than in tlieir characteristic decoration, which, althoughsparing in (piantity,—far too much so to give the impression ofrichness to tlie facades,— is of a quality and variety which make itliighly tyi>i(al of the Byzantine manner. The capitals of the cohunns 11 IK I.V/AMIM-: IMI.UKNCE ji;;
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Ciboriuiu of S. Ambrogio, Milan. are of several quite distinct forms, and vary not less in detail, fromthe braided lily capital so familiar to all students of St. Markschurch, to the simple high concave twin capitals of the coupledcolumns in the upper arcade of the Casa Farsetti. The single panels,sometimes round, oftener an upright rectangle, the latter sometimeswith an arched head, set in the face of the wall, sometiuies in 244 ARCHITPXTURE IN ITALY the spaiulrils of the arches, sometimes in a line or frieze abovethem, sometimes consisting of a simple disk of richly coloredmarble, sometimes of a geometric design in i)arti-colored stones,oftener of a bas-relief of a subject more or less emblematic, as a pairof birds, a grotesque animal, a winged figure, an angel, or a deco-rated cross, — are perhaps the most individual and invariably char-acteristic ornaments which can be mentioned. (Fig. 185.) Their usewas continued long beyond the strictly Byzantine period, and formsone of the mo

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