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 277
ral interest. S. Ambrogio (fSt. Ambrose), is perhapsthe most interesting of Lombard churchesin Italy, historically and architecturally.It may be called a typical Romanesquebasilica, with atrium or fore-court, nar-tliex, nave, aisles, and tribune, great cen-tral lantern, but without transept, and… … Fig. i i i.—iv a grand open court about 4*; ft. wide and118 ft. long, enclosed by groin-vaultedarcades of round arches, carried on groupedshafts with low capitals of extremely va-ried design, strongly Byzantine in char-acter, from which slender engaged shaftswith base and capital rise through…
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