. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 228. Lucca. 1 R. de Fleury, p. 96, pis. 35, 36. 294 AKCHITECTUKK IN ITALY S. Martino the facades were added about the end of the twelfth cen-tury. Both fa(;ades were the work of one architect, Guidetto, ofwhom nothing more than the name is known, but whose likeness issaid to be preserved in a sitting- statue in one of the galleries of thefa(;ade of the cathedraL Of the two fac;ades, that of San Michele follows more closely thePisan model, but follows it in a somewhat unintelliiien
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 228. Lucca. 1 R. de Fleury, p. 96, pis. 35, 36. 294 AKCHITECTUKK IN ITALY S. Martino the facades were added about the end of the twelfth cen-tury. Both fa(;ades were the work of one architect, Guidetto, ofwhom nothing more than the name is known, but whose likeness issaid to be preserved in a sitting- statue in one of the galleries of thefa(;ade of the cathedraL Of the two fac;ades, that of San Michele follows more closely thePisan model, but follows it in a somewhat unintelliiient way, S Michele o j being for the most part a mere screen or frontispiece, abso-lutely out of relation with the church behind it, — perhaps, indeed, themost extravagant and absurd example of this unreasonable habit ofthe Italian builders, fully one third of its height being above the roofof the nave. It has, like the cathedral, five stages, of which the firstis the usual blind arcade, of seven arches, with lozenges and circlesin the arch-heads, and three doorways, of which the central one ismuch like that of Pisa, whi
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