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 461
of the inner aisles. Tlie rows ofcolumns and arches in the original basilicawere replaced or encased under Borromiuiby the great piers, of which those next thenave are 26 ft. broad, rising through theentire height of tlie nave, and faced eachwith two great Corinthian pilasters carry- ing an… … Fig. 183.—Rome, S. Giovanni in Fonte (Baptistery of Constantine). lions. Between the piers are round archeswith a span of about 20 ft., and half ashigh as the nave, over which are the squarewindows of the clerestory, enclosed withinpilasters carrying broken pediments. Thenave is covered with a flat…
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