A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901) (14597678327)

Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
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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carried on slender pilasters, which rise; from a (;ontinnousbase eonrse, themselves provided with l)ases and leafed capitals. Allthese arches are blank, and have the lozenge-shaped panel in theirheads, with the exception of one, tlu^ ninth in order from the left endof the front, which contains a doorway of characteristic iorni, ascpiare oi)ening Hanked with i)ilasters, which carry a heavy sculpturedlintel surmounted by a bearing arch. On either side of this door-way a slender column is substituted for the pilaster. The secondand third arcades are of twenty-seven and thirty-eight arches re8j)ec-tively, sensibly stilted, and carried on full columns set against thewall. In all these arches, as well as in those of the lower arcade,appears the Pisan lozenge, except in five arches of the second stage,which are pierced with narrow round-arched windows. The wall isbanded throughout its whole height with equal courses of white andil-ark marble, except the spandrils of the arches and the narrow
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Fig. 230. Pistoia. S. Pietro. Lower Portion of Fagade. ^^ 304 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY spaces between them and the string courses, which are covered witha small geometrical inlay. I have said enouufh to show how individual and distinct a stvle isthat of Pisa, of which the features and i)rinciples were adopted withmore or loss of loyalty by Lucca and Pistoia, in si)ite of the hostilerelations which commonly prevailed among these cities.^ It is sin-iiular to ol)serve how closely circumscribed was the influence of this