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Bk. VIII. Ch. III.
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liK. VIII. L'u. III. TOSCANELLA. 349 The difficulty which the Italians never entirely conquered, was liow to amalgamate the sloping lines of the roofs of the aisles with the horizontal lines of the rest of the facade. The gallery over the central doorway enabled them very nearly to accomplish it in these Toscanella churches, and if the same string-courses had been carried all across, the whole might have been harmonized ; but it was just missed, and what is strange, more so in the second than in the first example. a '1 1 I ■ ! 1 I II ■ ySi I I U t HI ■.! 1 '1 Fj ,3i -.■ 778. Elevation of the Exterior of Sta. Maria, Toscanella. (From Gailhabaud.) No scale.
