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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J to zo Fig. 310. Monreale. Cathedral 1 Boito tells us that between the years 1811 and 1850 nearly half a million ducats werespent on the restorations, of which sum about thirty thousand ducats were given to therepairing of the mosaics. Boito, op. cit., p. 107. SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE 107
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Fig. 311. Monreale. Interior of Cathedral. towers at the angles of the facade, that on the north is unfinished ;the south tower is in five stages; the lowest is quite plain, the nexttwo have a single pointed window in each face, while the two upperstages have coupled arched openings, divided by a shaft and enclosedby a pointed bearing arch. The whole is crowned by a low pyra-midal spire. The flanks are interesting. The wall of the south aisle showsover the cloister a range of pointed windows surrounded by thinbands of mosaic, and between the windows broader arches formedby a similar ornament, but not recessed, and enclosing circular pat-terns of geometrical mosaic, with horizontal bands of the samecharacter. A frieze of inlay runs beneath the cornice. The wholecomposition is very rich and delicate. The clerestory wall, on theother hand (probably of later date), is absolutely plain, with singlepointed windows and an arched corbel-table at the eaves. The east end is, however, the most c

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