Category: History - European
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 06, June 1900 The Duomo and the Campanile: Florence; Grotesques from Notre Dame, Paris.
"It was in the middle of the thirteenth century," writes Symonds, "during the long struggle for independence carried on by the republics of Lombardy and Tuscany against the Empire and the nobles, that some of the most durable and splendid public works were executed. The domes...