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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)en archeson each face, was removedin the sixteenth centuryby order of the Spanishgoverhor of Milan, onthe pretence that so loftya tower threatened thesafety of his palace hardby. But the belfry, withthe stage below it, hasbeen rebuilt during thelast twenty years. (SeeFig. 80.) With manyvariations of detail thistype of tow^er, which, withrare exceptions, stood nearthe church, but was notattached to it, is singularlypersistent in Italy for atleast five hundred years :
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Fig. lO^. b. Giorgio in Velabro. and it was carried by Lombard builders far beyond the borders ofItaly into Germany and southern France. It is singular that the oldest square towers now in existence arethose of Kome. The one concession made by the conservatism of 170 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Rome to the encroaching intlnence of the invaders was in the atlop-Roman tion, though in a modified form, of the Lombard type ofTowers. towers. As early as the first quarter of the seventh centurythe earlier basilicas, even those of the time of Constantine, began toreceive the addition of campaniles. The tower of SS. Giovanni ePaolo ^ is mentioned in contemporary records as early as 62G. Thetowers of S. Lorenzo in Lucina and S. Agnese fuori le Mura are ofabout the same date, and that of S. Giorgio in Velabro is a half cen-turv later. (Fig. 108.) The tower of S. Lorenzo fuori was added about 720 and that of S. GiovanniLaterano, St. Peters, S. Giovanniin Porta Latina, S. Croce in Ge-rusalemme, and S. M

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