A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 131
Fig. 59. S. Ambrogio, Milan. 104 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY round arches, s])iiniiing from massive piers ; the aisles, half as wide as the nave, are also divided intosquare bays by similar arches, thebays being- covered in each case bygroined vaults, above which aregalleries of precisely similar… … spring its transverse dividins; Fij.-. 00. S. Miehele, Paviii. arches. But the division of theaisles into square bays, of whichtwo answer to each ba}^ of thenave, requires, as will be readilyunderstood, an intermediate pierof smaller size, opposite the cen-tre of the nave bays. To sup-port merely…
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