A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 182
s of which open great apses in- lunth, east, and south are alike, coveredeluded within five sides of an octagon, each by an octagonal half dome, and fromwhile from the fourth projects the great each of their sides opens, by a high pointednave, 5G ft. wide, flanked by aisles nearly arch, a vaulted… … -Florence, Cloister of S:a Croce and Capela Pa::i FLORENCE window similar to those of the aisles.Above the great arches of tiie ajises thewall of the central octagon is carried upnearly 40 ft., forming a drum for thegreat dome 135 ft. in diameter, the fullbreiidth of the church, preserving the…
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