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Rh Bk. VIII. ChI. hi. CHURCH AT ASSIST. 325 century, pi is church is also one of the earliest examples in which those elegfait terra-cotta cornices of small intersecting arches seem to have been brought to perfection. The most remarkable church of this age is that of St. Francis at Assisi, commenced in 1228, and finished, in all essentials at least, in 1253. It is said to have been built by a German named Jacob, or 756. Church at Asti. (From Chapuy, " Moyen-Age Monumental.") Jacopo. Certainly no French or English architect would have designed a double church of this class, though, on the other hand, no Italian could have drawn details so purely Northern as those of the upper church. In the lower church there are hardly any mouldings to mark the style, but its character is certainly rather German than Italian. This church depends for its magnificence and character much more ou