Identifier: dictionaryofarch02stur (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tes supjiort-ing architraves. The Benedictine style is bestrepresented at S. Clemente di Casauria (twelfthcentury), a basilical columnar church, and atS. Maria di Moscufo, of similar style and date.There are a number of Benedictine examjilesof an exceedingly primitive Romanesque style— sometimes with columns, sometimes withsquare piers (tenth to twelfth centuries).Primitive Lombard decoration in low leliefwas current (Alba, Rosciolo, Cajjestrano, Car-604 ITALY soli) (luniis the eleventh ami twelfth rentiivies.In the thirteenth century the two rnrrents —Romanesque and Uothie — were active eon-teuii)oraueously, in ditterent parts of tlieprovince, the Romanesi;ue, strangely enough,lasting until the early fourteenth century in ITALY this and the decoration show Lombard influ-ence. The Roman school has also left im-portant traces of mosaic work and decorativesculpture (Rocca di Botte, Alba Fucentia,Tcramo, etc.) in tlie twelfth tcj fourteenthcenturies. Important remaining monasteries
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Italy, Part X. — Abruzzi: Church at Santa Maria d Arbona, near the Adriatic; c. 1210 a.d. the north parts (Aquila), whei-eas the southwas more influenced by the Angevin Gothic ofCampania (Solmona, Tagliacozzo). The im-portant churches of both styles are nearly allmonastic: few important cathedrals. Stone,not brick, is the favourite material. Vaultingis used more freely than in most parts of Italy ;605 are at Ocre, Casanova, Carpineto, S. Pelino,with tunnel-vaulted and cross-vaulted churchesand contemporary vaulteil monastic buildings,all in developed tiiirteenth century Romaiicsipie.At S. Pelino, Trasacco, and at the churches ofS. Benedetto (near Pesi-ina) is seen the influ-ence of both late Romanesque Apulia and the606 ITALY school of A(nula. In gcinTal the Roiiiancscjuostructures are in poor preservation — eitlieraiiandonecl or restored — except such as Pia-nella, IMoscuib, and esijecially S. Giovanni inVcnore and Casauria, which are among the mostimportant of the style in Ita

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