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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y the beautiful fountain in the public square at Perug-ia,dating from 1278 to 1280, Milanesi, in his Documenti, gives the contract for the Sienapulpit by which Nicola binds himself to beg^in the work March 1,1260, and to bring- withhim his assistants, Lapo and Arnolfo, and his son Giovanni, and to live in Siena during THE GOTHIC 181 national passion for lavish adornment, with perhaps somewhat lessthan the usual national indifference to congruity and consistencybetween the exterior and interior. The lower half of the front isoccupied entirely by a great triple-arched porch, flanked by strongangle buttresses, which act as the bases of light towers ending instumpy spires which rise abov^e the roofs. The central arch is round,the others are pointed, and all are deeply splayed, with jamb-shaftsand enriched arch-mouldings, and covered by sharp crocketted gables,separated by pinnacles in whose faces are niches with statues, andwhich are crowned each by a standing figure. The upper portion is
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Fig. 355. Siena. Cathedral. in three compartments, answering to the breadth of nave and aisles,and separated by turrets ending in groups of enriched pinnacles.The central compartment is filled by a great round window without the progress of the work, reserving-, however, the right to make a quarterly visit to Pisaof fourteen days, to attend to his own private affairs, and to supervise the works on thecathedral and baptistery which he had still in charge. His salary was fixed at eightsoldi a day. The silver soldo was worth about twelve cents. Mothes, p. 745; Norton,op. ciL, pp. 128, 129. 182 ARCHITPXTURP: in ITALY tracery, of the full width of the nave, set in a square composed ofsmall gabled niches enclosing statues. The side compartments,much lower than the central one, have each a blind arcade enclosingstatues. All the compartments are covered by sharp gables risino-far above the roofs behind, and covered, as is every portion of thefacade, with sculptured ornament. The flanks of the

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