Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (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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Fig. 458. Siena. Foiite Gaia. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 307 ^^^N\rv.
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Figf. 459. Viterbo. Fonte Gattesehi. At Perugia. scheme for introducing fresh water into the city from the neighbor-ing hills. It needs no detailed description, — its simplicityof plan and disposition, its grand scale, and the extremebeauty of its sculptured ornament have made it renowned through-out the world. The work was under the patronage of the Pope,Nicholas III., who gave the charge of it to Nicolo Pisano, as isrecorded in the inscription which surrounds the bronze tazza.Nicolo is believed to have died not long after 1280, and his sonGiovanni continued the work. The diameter of the lower of thetwo basins — a polygon of twenty-four sides — is about thirty feet.The angles are marked by groups of twisted colonnettes, and itsfaces, which have a slight inward curve, are divided each into twopanels, filled with reliefs by Nicolo and Giovanni and their pupils.The subjects are very various, embracing the months of the year,the signs of the Zodiac, emblematic figures of the arts a

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