Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)
Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 279
hemicycles. as rare in Italianchurches as they are common in the French churches, wherethey are called pomiDiir. and develop themselves in a circularseries of chapels constituting one of the special characteristicsof the Gothic cathedrals of the North. But the structure of this apsis of S. Stephen,… … Fig. 13(j.—Plan of the Aphides of S. Stephen(inferior stage)—Xth Century (?). 272 inoiiument. The little ornamentation wliicli it jn-esents isformed of Roman fragments and capitals of the eightli century,accumulated without taste, and frequently mutilated in orderto fit the stems. This fact…
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