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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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Fiff. 161. S. Vitale. Lower Order of Arches. 224 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY another two horses are facing each other on opposite sides of a cross,etc., etc. The capitals of the upper arcades are of quite different charac-ter from those of the lower, and approach more nearly to the Corin-thian form, except in the tribune, where the leafage is of the same

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