Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 303
following thelines of the octagon, occupying therefore the spaces between theangle piers and their intermediate buttresses, and answering to 282 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE the outer and inner faces of these supports. Being double, itleaves room for two practicable galleries about the building,… … filling walls have windows which not only light the galleries, butthe whole interior, through the open arcade of the first storey andthe squares at the base of the cupola. Coming to the details ofthis filling, we observe that the outer face of the basement is aplain wall set a little back, so that…
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