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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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fts at the sides of the niche have a series of detached flowers in thespirals, the columns and pilasters have foliated capitals, the wall of CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 303 the niche is panelled with a black and white marble inlay, and thepanel of the pedestal has a similar inlay, with the figure of a wingedlion in high relief in the centre. (Fig. 453.) The hospitals of Italy go back, as I have said, to the early daysof the Lombard occupation, perhaps to an even earlier ^heperiod. And there was never a time since their foundation Hospitals.when these institutions of mercy have been wanting, even in the midstof the most savage and desolating warfare. But during the darkages the hospitals, like the schools, were under the charge of themonasteries, and were indeed to be regarded as accessories of theseinstitutions. With the advance of civilization, hospitals began to benot only founded but maintained by the secular powers. Most ofthese are later than the buildings we have been considering, dating
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Fig. 455. Perugia. Court of Ospedale MiUtare. mostly from the fifteenth century, — as the Pammatone at Genoa,founded in 1420, now greatly enlarged and modernized, the OspedaleGrande at Milan, 1457, the Ospedale di Ridolfo Tanzi atParma, 1487, etc. Of these the most familiar is the greathospital at Milan, a building of enormous extent, founded by DukeFrancesco Sforza and his wife, but of which the greater part belongs At Milan. m 304 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY to a later date. The architect was Antonio Filarete, of Florence.The portion originally built consists of a single wing covering asquare of about three hundred and forty feet, scarcely more than athird of the building which we see to-day; the other wing, with thegreat central court which connects the two, was the work of Ricchiniin the early part of the seventeenth century. The entire building hasa frontage of nearly nine hundred feet, of which the portion stand-ing in front of the central court is all that can be connected withthe

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