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 196
on eacli side, springing from Co-rinthian columns of serpentine, abovewhich is a clerestory with s(]uare windows,and a round barrel-vault. The aisles arevaulted and terminate in square niches,and the aisle walls are pierced by archescorresponding to those of the nave, andojjening into chapels. The… … Fig. 76,—Florence, Sta CroC tine churc;hes, was built for the Francis-cans at the end of the xiii cent., by Arnolfo da Lapo, who at the same time was architect of the catlicdriil. It is a(lothic cruciform church of enormoussize, whose length is variously given from350 ft. to 490 ft. It has a great…
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