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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. 451. Plan of Or San Miehele. 298 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY At Monza. The broletto of Monza, believed by some authorities to be a i^or-tion of the palace built by the Emperor Frederick in 1123,is one of the smallest of the group, having a width of forty-two feet and a length of a hundred. The arcade of the lower storyis of the simplest character, the square piers having neither base norimpost moulding, and the high pointed arches no edge mouldingsnor archivolts, but only a band of darker brick enclosing the vous-soirs, which are varied by occasional blocks of stone or marble. The ends of this build-ino; finish with low
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Fig-. 4:52. Angie of Or San Michele. gables, from one ofwhich rises a simplesquare tower withopen belfry stage andforked battlementsand an octagonalspire. The ringhierain this building is setin the centre of theother gable, directlyover the pier whichseparates the twoarches of the groundfloor, — an unusualposition, — and iscovered by a canopysupported by col-umns at the angles,— also an unusualfeature. The twothree-light windowsabove are similar incharacter to those ofthe Palazzo Commu- nale at Piacenza, except for the enclosing archivolts of terra-cotta.(Fig. 449.) _ The ringhiera — which is, as I have before explained, the balconyfrom which the decrees of the government were promulgated and fromwhich the magistrates were accustomed on occasion to address thecitizens — usually occupied a position in the centre of the long frontof the building; and as it was more conveniently placed on a level CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 299 with the floor of the great hall of the second or principal

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