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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^^•::->-i .ivi Fig. IGG. Parenzo. Capitals from Cathedral. stem in the centre with five horizontal leaves on either hand.^ (Fig.166.) All have stilt-blocks, generally quite simple in form, rising fromthe capital with a fine convex curve, and bearing on the face towardsthe nave a monogram enclosed in a circle with a rude leaf stem ex-tending on either hand. The fine ciborium which stands in theapse, and which is of much later date than the church,^ has fourarches springing from capitals which differ entirely from all othersin the church, but which have much the character of some in Con-stantinople. Here there are no stilt-blocks.^ The height of the ^ There are seven varieties of capital in the nave, which are arranj^ed pretty regularlyin piers opposite one another: — a. A lotus leaf capital like a well-known one at S. Vitale, Ravenna. b. A Byzantine version of the composite capital. c. A basket-shaped capital covered with fretwork. d. Is surrounded by a scroll, and has animals a

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