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Example sentences for "black and white marble"

  • In this west front of San Francesco the cornices and the mouldings of the small circular windows are all of brick, and the rest of the front of stone, the rose window having voussoirs of black and white marble.

  • Its outer arch is carried on detached shafts resting on the backs of monsters, and it is mainly constructed of black and white marble.

  • In 1293, Arnolfo di Cambio levelled the Piazza, removed the tombs, and plastered the pilasters in the angles of the octagonal with slabs of black and white marble of Prato, as now we see.

  • Like the rest of the cathedral it is banded in black and white marble.

  • The effect obtained by the bands of black and white marble of which the walls are composed is not so embarrassing to the eye as in Siena's holy fane.

  • It will be noticed that some of these palaces are faced, like the Cathedral, with bands of black and white marble.

  • The front of the church is composed of black and white marble, which, in the course of the five centuries that it has been built, has turned brown and yellow.

  • The pavement is formed of squares of black and white marble.

  • One of the most beautiful examples is the baptistery of Santa Maria at Gravedona, at the northern end of the lake of Como, built in black and white marble.

  • It, and the church of San Matteo, which has always been under the patronage of the Dorias, are both built of alternate layers of black and white marble.


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