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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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Palazzo Galati, dating from about 1330, the Badia Vecchia, probably somewhat later, and the Palazzo Corvaia, formerly known as the palace of the German lords (Palazzo dei Signori tedeschi), dating from 1372. Of these, the two first show the same large coupled windows which we have seen in the contemporary palaces of Palermo, while the third shows distinct variations in the form of openings, the windows of the side elevation being coupled under a bearing-arch with ogee curves in the Venetian manner, and on the entrance front a similar window of three lights, under two interlacing ogee arches. What is not less unusual, the exterior disposition expresses the interior, where one half the building is occupied by a large hall on each story, the remainder being divided into smaller apartments. On the entrance front, the treatment of the former is superior in height as well as in material and design to that of the latter. The entrance door is a low elliptical arch with its label moulding carried up into a low ogee arch
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Fig. 423. Taormina. Badia Vecchia. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 269 the belt-course on which rest the windows of the principal story is a characteristic example of decoration, with shields in the frieze between narrow bands of delicate inlay. The extent to which the taste of individual builders in Italy was sometimes attracted by the earlier Sicilian architecture is well illustrated in the Casa Ruffola at Ravello. It is rather a villa than a palace, built towards the close of the thirteenth century by one or another of the great and public-spirited family who had controlled the affairs of the little Casatown. The house stands in the midst of somewhat extensive grounds, with outbuildings of various kinds, detached towers, pergolas, etc. Its plan (Fig. 426) is irregular, and includes a fine interior court with three stories of arcaded galleries, the lowest with three great pointed and stilted arches on each side on slender columns, like the arcades of the Capella Palatina and Monreale

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