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Page 571
... Romanesque period , and 11th - century examples are to be found in Italy in the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice and in the Church of S. Miniato at Florence . Leading was possibly used to hold together the pieces of glass in a window ...
... Romanesque period , and 11th - century examples are to be found in Italy in the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice and in the Church of S. Miniato at Florence . Leading was possibly used to hold together the pieces of glass in a window ...
Page 572
... Romanesque monumentality has already begun to be tempered by the less austere , less rigorously formal mode of the Gothic . The most important workshop in the Île - de - France re- gion around Paris was connected with the rebuilding of ...
... Romanesque monumentality has already begun to be tempered by the less austere , less rigorously formal mode of the Gothic . The most important workshop in the Île - de - France re- gion around Paris was connected with the rebuilding of ...
Page 1060
... Romanesque period of the 12th and early 13th centuries . Fragments of a tapestry with traces of human figures and trees reminiscent of hangings described in the Norse sagas were found in an early - 9th - century burial ship exca- vated ...
... Romanesque period of the 12th and early 13th centuries . Fragments of a tapestry with traces of human figures and trees reminiscent of hangings described in the Norse sagas were found in an early - 9th - century burial ship exca- vated ...
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