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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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ady spoken of the door- ^-^^ 276. Trani. Doorway. way of the cathedral of Benevento as an example of the Pisan influence in the South.But if it be compared with the doorway of the cathedral Benevento. . . . , ; or of the baptistery at Pisa, the difference in character is striking. The Byzantine vine wreathes itself into a succession ofirregular circles, each enclosing a beast or bird in vigorous action,as in the Lombard work of the North, while at the base of eachjamb pilaster is a pair of seated figures, of which the subject andaction are hard to determine. The outer archivolt of the centraldoor at the cathedral of Trani is of precisely similar character. At Ruvo the central doorway is of remarkable character. (Pig.277.) The beasts, both below and above the flanking col-umns, are quite unlike any others I know, having more theaspect of seals than of any land animal real or fictitious. The upperones are of monstrous size. The flanking columns, so commonly applied to doors and windows,
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RUVO. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 59 may have had a symbolical significance, as in many cases they standalone without supporting anything of a constructional nature, as inthe window in the west front of Trani. This is more often the casewith the columns of windows than with those of doors. But inS. Giacomo at Trani the doorway is a simple round-arched opening,enclosed in a broad plain band, with a narrower enriched band out-side of it, and flanked on either side by a column which stands on

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