About Italy’s architecture
Romance or Gothic structure and roofs were little used in construction cathedrals in Italy. Instead these were preferred ceiling cassette – as to Pisa – and wood framing, wood semi-cylindrical vault covered with decorations in stone and Byzantine dome.
Legacy of classical antiquity definitely said the word in Italy, especially Tuscany and the proportion who preferred quiet balance and weight instead structures with Romanesque or Gothic vaults avantates them.
Features are here marble ornament laced, full-empty rates, sculptures and mosaics that turn into real Italian cathedrals monuments – Jewelry, both in terms of details and assembly.
Take selective semicircular arch decorations Romanesque facade and Gothic arches broken. Originality is on Italian cathedrals with decorative colored marble tiling. If cathedrals, and campaniles Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia and Prato is used blue-green marble. In Florence, is white marble, pink and green, black and white marble from Siena.