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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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heads holding rings,emblematic devices,as heraldic shieldscrowned by a cardi-nals hat with cordand tassels, or abishops mitre, thewhole enclosed byborders of foliage.The character of allthis decoration ismuch less distinctlyByzantine than isusual.i (Fig. 289.)In the twelfth cen-tury the •^ atTrani; method of decoration byniello graduallygave way, as thesubjects becamemore ambitious, tothat of reliefs, caston the plate. By1160 the changeseems to be com-plete. In that yearthe cathedral ofTrani was adornedby a magnificentpair of doors exe-cuted by Barisanusof Trani. (Fig.290.) Of this ar-tist we know no more than the name, which is, however, immortalizednot only by these doors of his native town, but by those which he
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T * Fig. 288. Doors of Chapel of Bohemund. 1 Schulz gives these doors an earlier date, 1098 (vol. i., p. 187).and Mothes, pi. 36. See, also, Schnaase 76 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY executed somewhat later for the cathedral of Kavello and for thenorthern doorway of Monreale. These three examples differ in sizeand form: those of Ravello are much smaller than the others, beingabout seven feet wide and eleven feet high, while those of Trani arenearly ten feet wide and fifteen and a half feet high. But it is verycurious that in all three of these widely separated examples, thepanels, which vary greatly in number (thirty-two at Trani, fifty-fourat Ravello, forty-four at Monreale), are for the most part identicalin subject and design. The subjects are of a prodigious variety, sacred and profane;single sitting figures of saints and apostles, knights on horseback,both Norman and Saracen, warriors with cross-bow, scenes from thechase, scenes from the life of Christ, kneeling angels, are mingledwithou

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