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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-. 406. Lueca. Palazzo Guinig-i. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 251 window-lights are of bricks whose joints radiate from the centresof the arches, and not from those of the cusps, and which must
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Fig. 407. Pisa. Palace on the Lung Arno. probably have been cut to the cusped outline after being set. Thetower which rises from an angle of the palace is the highest inLucca, and is a good illustration of the private tower of defenceof which I have spoken on an earlier page. A luxuriant growth ofshrubbery, which covers the ruined summit, makes the tower oneof the most striking and picturesque objects in this charming city.(Fig. 406.) The interior retains little or nothing of its originalaspect except the staircase, which is covered by a barrel-vault fol-lowing the slope of the stair.^ 1 Verdier et Cattois, Architecture Civile et Domestique du Moyen Age, vol. i., p. 127.These authors assign the Guinigi palace to the first half of the thirteenth century. So 252 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Palacesof Pisa. At Pisa a brick palace on the Lung Arno, dating from the four-teenth century, has a disposition of parts very similar to theGuinigi palace, but the design derives a distinct characterfrom th

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