. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. i; - V- i- -. Fig. 111). S. Anibrogio, in Nave. Fig-. 120. S. Ambrogio. Milan. Capital inNave. another a block capital with a female figure of the rudest andgrossest description on each face, absohitely without another is a portion of the impost of the doorway with a pilas-ter capital bearing a winged sphinx, and a column capital with a sit-ting; fioure in a rude niche. By the time the Lombards had fairly determined their own styleand their own construction, the class
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. i; - V- i- -. Fig. 111). S. Anibrogio, in Nave. Fig-. 120. S. Ambrogio. Milan. Capital inNave. another a block capital with a female figure of the rudest andgrossest description on each face, absohitely without another is a portion of the impost of the doorway with a pilas-ter capital bearing a winged sphinx, and a column capital with a sit-ting; fioure in a rude niche. By the time the Lombards had fairly determined their own styleand their own construction, the classic, even in the degraded formin which they had used it, had well-nigh disappeared. The mas-siveness of construction, in which columns were replaced by piers, suggested quite other forms. Inthe compound capitals of thechurch of Aurona at Milan, spokenof above (p. 101), the cubical formis already fully developed, and])erfectly expresses the function ofthe (a})ital as a bearer of a heavyload. The low scpiare block issurmounted by a solid abacus ashigh as itself, in wliich the mould-ing is a straight line, the
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