. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. or the podesta, the consuls, and other officers of state, with aprison and an arsenal. Little is left of these buildings beyond thatportion now known as the Loggia degli Osii, a three-story edifice,of which the first story is an open arcade of five round arches onsquare piers, the second also an open arcade, but of pointed archeson columns, and the third a low story with a range of niches ingroups of three corresponding to the arches below, and enclosingstatues. Between the first and second arcade
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. or the podesta, the consuls, and other officers of state, with aprison and an arsenal. Little is left of these buildings beyond thatportion now known as the Loggia degli Osii, a three-story edifice,of which the first story is an open arcade of five round arches onsquare piers, the second also an open arcade, but of pointed archeson columns, and the third a low story with a range of niches ingroups of three corresponding to the arches below, and enclosingstatues. Between the first and second arcades is a continuous balconydivided into square panels carrying armorial shields, and having inthe middle ths ringhiera, which sufficiently indicates the original pur-pose of the building.^ 1 Sismondi, History of the Italian Mepublics. 2 Galvaneus Flamma, a Milanese chronicler, writing- about 1350, gives some figures con-cerning the city of Milan in 1288, under Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Private houses, 13,000 >population, 200,000, including 600 notaries, 200 physicians, 80 schoolmasters, and 50. Fig. 425. Taormina. Palazzo S. Stefano. 272 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY To conceive any clear idea of the successive forms of governmentTheir gov- wliich follov/cd cach other so rapidly in these restless com-ernment. munitics, is a difficult matter; since the accounts of thecontemporary chroniclers are obscure and are variously interpretedby modern writers. The visible authority was from an early period
Size: 1370px × 1824px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectarchite, bookyear1901
