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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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on of the columns, is ofred marble, is remarkable for the severity of its forms, and itsrestraint in the matter of ornament, the principal decoration beinga narrow band of delicate sculpture following the line of the arches.Similar tombs flank the main doorway of San Fermo. The little cemetery over the gateway of which this monumentrests, is bounded on one side by the small church of San Tomb ofPietro Martire. On the wall of the church is a monument ^^ssami.of the same class with that of Castelbarco, just noticed, and pre-sumably of about the same age, the first half of the fourteenth cen-tury. This is the tomb of Dussaini, and though less admirable inits forms than that last mentioned, is still one of the best of its class.(Fig. 370.) The face of the sarcophagus, which rests on two corbelsprojecting from the wall of the church, is covered with beautifulfigure sculpture under small arches, above which is an exquisiteband of foliage in relief. Another pair of corbels, on either side of
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202 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY the sarcophagus, support two strong columns which carry the pointedarched and gabled canopy similar in form to that of Castelbarco.The whole monument is much blackened by age. The remarkable group of family memorials known as the tombs ofthe Scaligers stand crowded together in a little cemeterythe scaii- in front of the small church of Santa Maria Antica. Theycover in time the half century between 1330 and 1380, andare of various degrees of merit, from the simple canopied tomb ofCan Grande L, — which is built above the doorway of the church,and resembles in its main features the tomb of Dussaini last de-scribed, except that it is crowned with a pyramidal truncated spirewhich carries the equestrian figure of the duke, — to the extravagantand pretentious structure which commemorates the infamous CanSignorio, and which, though abounding in beautiful detail, is abrilliant example of everything to be avoided in construction andcomposition. In Tuscany, the regi

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