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 283
e Chapel of 8. Aquilino,a vaulted octagonal building about 40 ft.in internal diameter, with niches alter-nately square and round occupying eachside of the octagon, and built in thethickness of the walls, which is about 11ft. Between the crown of these nichesand the spring of the dome is a… … Fig I le, —Milan, b Loienzn masking the dome, similar to those of thecentral lanterns in the Lombard churches,but without columns, the arches carriedon brick piers. Buttresses of slight pro-jection reinforce the angles. The roof isconical and low. The dome and vaultswere originally covered with…
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