Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
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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ong in the last detail, which is shown correctly in another plate of the same work. 246 AKCHITECTURE IM ITALY Venice is in the doorway arch of a honse called the Ca Contarini,where the tynii)anam bears a winded any;el carrying a shield, withthe inscription Pax hnic doniui,* and the archivolt has a broadband of scnlpture, the whole arch being inscribed in a sqnare borderwith rosettes, and the si)andrils being filled with circles enclosingeach a pair of birds. (Fig. 189.) The same feeling and method are seen in the doorway arch of ahouse in the Fondamenta Pesaro, where the tympanum is filled witha bas-relief representing two winged and kneeling angels bearing ashield between them, while above the shield is the half figure ofa third angel holding in one hand a circular disk with a Greekcross in relief, the other being raised in the posture of benediction.The arch in this instance is pointed, but is surrounded by a broadborder edged on both sides with the Venetian dentil and filled with a
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