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Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895
Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy

Author: Various

Release Date: September 13, 2006 [EBook #19262]

Language: English

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THE BROCHURE SERIES

OF ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION.

VOL. I. APRIL, 1895. No. 4.

BYZANTINE-ROMANESQUE WINDOWS IN
SOUTHERN ITALY.

The collection of photographs from which the plates in this and the
February number were selected was only recently made under the direction
of Signor Boni, an official of the Italian government, charged with the
care and restoration of historic monuments.

The province of Apulia has been so little invaded by the march of modern
improvement, and its present inhabitants are, as a rule, so poor, that
it is difficult to travel here except on the line of a few main
thoroughfares, and strangers seldom visit more than one or two of the
principal towns on the coast. Bari and Brindisi are known to tourists,
as they are in the line of travel to and from Greece, but the inland
towns are isolated in a barren priest-ridden country in which strangers
are not welcome. The hardships which it is necessary to face deter all
but the most adventurous even of the Italians, familiar with the
language and manners of the people. Architects seldom visit this
neighborhood, and little is known of its rich treasure of mediaeval
buildings, except through the few published works treating of it. Signor
Boni expressed himself as surprised at the great amount of beautiful
work scattered through this region, of which he previously had no
knowledge. The opinion of Fergusson has already been quoted in the
preceding article.

The mixture in the work here illustrated of Byzantine and Romanesque
elements has also been referred to in the preceding article, but the
special character