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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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Fig. 449. Monza. Broletto. At Padua. ^ The measurements given by various authorities vary, as usual. I have taken thoseof Mothes. 296 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY
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Fig. 450. Piacenza. Palazzo Pubblieo. entirely free from interior supports. Its walls of brick masonry aredivided, as on the exterior, by thin pilaster strips, with two-lightpointed windows in the bays, and small round windows above. Theroof is a high-pointed timber arch with ribs some four feet apart,with no framed ties, but held together by two lines of iron tie-rods oneabove another. The exterior wall is treated much like the flank ofa Lombard cathedral, with pilaster strips dividing it into panels, andending in an arched corbel-table ; the cornice crowned with a battle-ment similar to that of the ducal palace of Venice, and above allthe great curved hipped roof with its small dormers. To this simplestructure were added, at some later date difficult to determine, twostories of enclosing arcades on each flank, of extraordinary ugliness,— the first including all forms of arches, round, segmental, andpointed, carried on small columns; the second of smaller archesnearly as irregular

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