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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 256

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Fig. 101.—Loreto, Church of Santa Casa. years of the xiv cent, over the House ofthe Virgin, transported miraculously fromXazareth and set down on the shore ofthe Adriatic. Its plan is a Latin crossabout 3.30 ft. long and 23.5 ft. wide across 195 LUCCA the transept. Tlie original church wasGothic,… … Fig. 102.- L.- to, b.,;,:j C.i separated l)y arcades of six jjointed archeson each side springing from square pierswith foliage capitals and stilt-blocks. Thebays of the nave and aisles are groined, andin the outer wall of each aisle bay is a rect-angular altar-niche. The crossing is cov-ered by a…

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