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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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saic is doubtless in great part new,but the execution is admirable. Such development of Gothic architecture as took place in Veniceduring the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries had little relation to THE GOTHIC 189 the work we have thus far been considering. Venice had duringher whole history been to a great extent independent of .the rest of Italy, in her artistic as well as in her politicalrelations, and this independence continued down to the fall of theVenetian power.^ But the leaning to the forms of Eastern art whichhad characterized the architecture of Venice until the end of thetwelfth century had now come to an end. In none of the churchesof the Gothic period is there any marked trace of Oriental or Byzan-tine influence. And it must be added that the distinction, originality,and viofor wliich had under that influence so ennobled the architectureof Venice is not to be found in the work of the Gothic period. Weshall see these qualities reappearing in a marked degree in the work
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Fig. 360. Orvieto. Cathedral. of the masters of the Renaissance ; but the interval between theByzantine and the Renaissance periods is, so far as church-building 1 It will be remembered that at the beginning of the thirteenth century the questionwas seriously considered of abandoning Venice, even as Rome had been abandoned in thefourth, and establishing the seat of the Venetian government at Constantinople. TheDoge Ziani himself is said to have proposed this step, which was only defeated in thecouncil by a majority of one, the vote (known as the Voto della Providenza) standing320 to 321. See Browns Venice, an Historical Sketch, p. 134. 190 ARCHITECTURE IX ITALY is concerned, an in-terval of languor andof commonplace.This change is per-haps owing in partto the change in theattitude of the Re-public towards theoutside world. Ven-ice had been drawn,during the twelfthcentury, into thegreat current of Eu-ropean politics andEuropean wars, tothe absorption of herinterest and her re-sources.

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