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 133
built by themselves, and themasonry of the cells filled in upon them afterwards, without any con-nection between the one and the other, so that the distortion of themasonry of the cells by settling and cracking had left the ribs quiteuninjured, and in some cases the two distinct masses of masonry… … Fig. 02. luterior of IS. Ambrogio. been drawn apart so as to leave openings between them of thebreadth of a finger. It was tlms found possible, without in any waydisturbing the ribs, to take down, one by one, the cells of the vaultsand replace them by new brickwork.^ The form of the vaults is a…
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