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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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Fig-. 193. Interior of St. Marks. The four lesser arches enclose each a small, plain, round-headedwindow, the head of the arch being filled with mosaic. All thearches are surrounded by carved archivolts, — that of the centralarch much the largest and richest, — and all are surmounted byogee gables decorated with wildly extravagant crockets, consisting ofstatues and masses of foliage, and terminated by finials carryingstatues. Between the gables and at the angles of the facade are tallpinnacles with arched canopies enclosing statues and capped withspires. Behind these rise the five domes of varying sizes and heights,covered with metal, and crowned with fantastic, bulbous cupolas.The effect of the whole is one of indescribable strangeness, as farremoved from the soaring majesty of the Northern cathedrals as fromthe noble simplicity and repose of the Greek temples : yet from nei-ther of these does one receive a more profound or lasting impression.On the flanks of the church the archi

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