Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 448
producedis that of simply the gloomiest interior in Italy. The church is cruciform, with a central cupola and apsesto the three eastern arms of the cross. The nave and aislesof seven bays are vaulted, and there is a large and strikingcrypt under the whole eastern part of the church which goesfar to… … PLAN OF BAPTISTERY. roofs, and in part also to its unusual height. The capitalsare all carved—frequently with coarse volutes; the churchwas founded in 1058, and no doubt thiscrypt is of about that age. Yery near to the cathedral on thesouth-west is the now much more in-teresting baptistery. This is…
