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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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
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Fig. 2ol. Pistoia. is. Giovanni Fuortivitas. style in s))ite of its strongly individual character and its essentialcharm. Scarcely anywhere in Italy, except in the towns I havealready mentioned, and in some curious instances in the south ofItaly, which will be noticed in a later chapter, are any examples ofit to be fttund. In Volterra, however, an ancient city lying about as far to thesouth of Pisa as Pistoia is to the east, the cathedral, builtoriginally about 1120, but lengthened in 1234 under Nicolo Volterra. Pisa and Lueca were at war witli each other as early as UMJ.J. and there was littlepeace between them for four hundred years. Pistoia was too small a city to carry on aprolonged w;ir. hut could not escape entan^-ling alliances/ alternately with one and theother of her greater neighbors. TllK CKxMUAL UOAIA^KSC^LE 305 Pisiino, shows in its f:i(,;ule imuih of tin- Pis:iii ch.inurtcr, — a Iiigliblind arcade in the middle division, with the lozenge in the aredi-heads and an open

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