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. 198. St. Marks. Capitals in Porch. the spring of the arch on either side, twists itself into an interh\cingpattern with men, women, and children in various action, mingledwith birds, animals, and foliage. In the other band is a series ofsingle female figures holding open scrolls, and following the curveof the arch, much as the canopied saints in the vault of a Gothicdoorway. But the skill and the artistic sense which govern the com-position are not Gothic but Greek. The first four figures on eachside are standing; then, as the curve approaches the horizontal, thenext figures recline, and still higher are seated, the crown of thearch being occupied by a symmetrical group of figures forming acentre of the whole composition. The soffits of these arches are alsosculptured. In the two doorways on either side of the centre, thearch and its spandrils are enclosed in a square, and the sculpture,both in the s))andrils and the archivolts, is relieved against a groundof mosaic, golden in so

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