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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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the Byzantineworkman. The decorationof the ancientchair or throne ofthe bishop, whichstill retains its))lace in the apseof San Ambrogio,is perhaps one ofthe oldest exam-ples of Lombardsculpture remain-ing. (Fig. 122.)The throne is arude structurebnilt of coursedstonework, andraised above thej)aveinent by twohigh steps. Theseat is enclosedon the sides bytwo upright slabsof marble, of which the front faces are ornamented with a guillochc, and whichbear each a couchant lion of the conventional Lombard type. Thethrone was originally Hanked, according to the custom of the earlybasilicas, by a lower range of seats for the clergy, running aroundthe curve of the apse ; but these were replaced, ))robably between thetwelfth and fourteenth centuries, by the present range of canopiedwooden stalls. San Ambrogio is fortunate in retaining, besides the bishops throne,the ancient (•il)oriuiii over the high altar, and the marble puli)itwhich stands against one of the columns of the nave. The ciborium
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Fig. 120. S. Ambrogio. Pulpit. TllK LOMI.AKI) lUJMAM..S(^Ult: 185

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