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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. :^80. Molfetta. Choir-stalls. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 65
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Fig. 281. Troja. Pulpit in Cathedral. of this decoration in the Southern churches has been ascribed. Inthe general form of the pulpits there is little variation from the typewith which we are familiar in the churches of the North. Theyconsist almost invariably of three low walls, forming three sides ofa square or oblong enclosure, reached by a flight of stairs and sup-ported by four or more columns, sometimes resting on lions or otherbeasts, sometimes on a low platform, sometimes connected by roundarches, but oftener carrying the pulpit directly on their capitals. The beautiful pulpit of the cathedral of Troja is one of the ear-liest of its class, dating from 1169. (Fig. 281.) It restson four fine columns, with large spreading capitals of theByzantine acanthus; the faces above divided into panels enclosed inbroad bands or borders, ornamented with a meandering vine. Onthe front face the panel is plain, with a slender column in the centresupporting the eagle which holds up the reading-d

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