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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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umns and capitals. Thecanopy over the altar (or haldachino) is a fine one of the thir-teenth. The entrance-cloister, or quadri-porticus, is attributedto the ninth century, and the original parts are probably ofthat period, but it has been almost entirely rebuilt in the thir-teenth. Various tombs and fragments of an earlier period arebuilt into the walls. The church of S.Lorenzo is more curious than beautiful;it stands behind a grand colonnade of Corinthian columns ofthe third century, which belonged to the thermae of thatperiod, but have been supported by brickwork in the thir-teenth. The church is made out of one of the great circular \_Seep. 298. k This was kindly pointed out to me some years since by Mr. H. O. Coxe,the Librarian, and I had it engraved on wood by Orlando Jewitt. I amnow able to shew my readers the contrast between the old palace beforethe fire in the sixteenth century, and the restoration of it. 296 ITALY—VENICE. View of the Doges Palace and S. Marks in A.D. 1360.
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From MS. Bodl. 264, in tlie Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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