Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (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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Fig. 272. Doorway at Terlizzi. I THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 53 much ruined doorway of Rutigiiano. But sometimes this continuityis neglected, as in the church del Rosario at Terlizzi (Fig. 272),where the principal subject is the arrival of the three wise men atthe stable, the Virgin lying on a couch, with the infant Christ in a
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Fig. 273. Bitetto. Central Doorway of Fagade. 54 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY manger above, while on one side of this group Christ is extendedon the cross, and on the other side is what appears to be an Annun-ciation, in which the figures are quite out of scale with the others.^ The flat faces of the piers which form the jambs of the doorway,frequently repeated in several orders, are generally examples ofByzantine floral decoration, with a meandering vine wreathing itselfinto infinitely varied geometrical figures, circles, ovals, squares, orlozenges, charged with figures of beasts and birds, with foliage,flowers, and fruit. In the more striking examples, the broad sur-face is divided into distinct squares, each with a group of figures inhigh relief, often of extreme delicacy and beauty, as in the outerpiers of the central doorway of the cathedral of Bitetto ; and nota-bly at Altamura (Fig. 274), where the lowest compartment on eitherside is a decorated niche (one with a cusped and pointed ar

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