A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901) (14597887859)

Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (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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es, each dividedinto eight vaulted roomsby radiating walls fromeach angle of the build-ing. On the second storythe angle towers, which,in the first story, are oc-cupied by spiral stair-cases, furnish space foreight small octagonalcabinets formerly coveredby domes. These apart-ments api^ear to havebeen finished with great elegance, the walls having been faced withvarious colored marbles, and the vaults ornamented with mosaics.Of the architectural design of this fine castle we can form but animperfect notion from its present condition. The tops of walls andtowers are gone, and the great octagonal court is choked with fallenmasonry and other rubbish. The single entrance doorway consistsof a pointed arch with columnar jambs covered with a rather flatgable, and ornamented with sculptures in red marble. Far above isa round-arched window with a solid tympanum and angle shafts.The various apartments are lighted from the court by two-lightpointed windows with bearing-arch enclosed in a square.
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Fig. 404. Plan of Castel del Monte. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 249