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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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enturyin the Gothic style,— S. Maria del Car-mine in 1446, S.Maria Incoronata about 1460, and the more widely known church of S. Maria delleGrazie in 1464, which, remaining unfinished at or near the end of thecentury, was completed by Bramante in the style of the early Renais-sance. In Padua, Verona, Vicenza, and other cities of the North areto be found other examples of late Gothic churches. In Como theold cathedral of 1396 was undergoing enlargement and alterations allthrough the fifteenth century. In its facade, which was faced withmarble towards the end of the century, the old forms were retainedfor the most part, but much enrichment was added, and this was allof a pronounced Gothic character. A row of five niches over thecentral doorway containing statues is decorated with crocketted gablesand high pinnacles crowned with small standing figures of muchdelicacy and beauty. The windows of the side compartments arehigh two-light openings divided by a very slender shaft, while those
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Fig. 387. Messina. Window in Cathedral. 228 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY of the middle division, flanking the row of niches just mentioned, areenriched by deep hollow jambs with small statues on corbels. But nowhere in the north — nowhere, indeed, in Italy — can therebe found a purer or more beautiful instance of the late use of Gothicforms than in the central doorway of the cathedral of Messina.(Figs. 385, 386.) The church itself — an ancient basilica some threehundred feet long, rebuilt towards the end of the eleventh centuryby Count Roger, and subsequently much altered — is not particu-larly interesting, but the doorway, which dates from about 1330, isone of the richest and most beautiful in Italy. The fine pointedarch is enclosed within a broad, flat band of delicate reliefs, the faceof the lintel being enriched in the same manner. Outside of this isa series of decorated shafts and arch-mouldings, flanked by a twistedcolumn resting, after the manner of the Southern Romanesque, up

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