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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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most classic cornice,enriched in a similar manner with mosaic.The faces are plain, except the front, whichhas an octagonal projection in the centre, withan eagle holding the desk. The panels areenclosed between corner posts, which, like theupper rail, are enriched by a small pattern ofmosaic, while the lower border has a purelyGreek honeysuckle ornament.^ The mosaic,by the elegance of its design and the delicacyof its execution, leads one to suspect it tobe the work of the Cosmati, with whom thepulpit is contemporary. If that be the case,it is a rare example in the South, theirwork having been, in great part, confined toRome and its near neighborhood, — Subiaco,Fig. 285. Pulpit in S. Sabino. Anagni, Civita-Castellana, etc.^ ^ Schulz, pi. ix. 2 The best account of this remarkable family, whose genius was handed down throughfour generations, is to be found in the essay of Sig. Boito, Archittetura del Medio Evo inItalia^ pp. 117-182, where a list of their principal works is also given.
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1 THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 71 In the episcopal chairs or thrones we shall observe a very similarstyle of decoration to that which marks the pulpits. But Bishopsin general the ornament is of greater delicacy, the field chairs:being more restricted. Those of San Nicola at Bari and SanSabino at Canosa may be cited as characteristic examples. . . at Ban; (Fig. 286.) In the former, the chair, which is on a broad step running around the wall of the apse, stands upon a low

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