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 134
e pier is met.Over each of the transverse arches of tho aisles a solid wall of brick-work is built up, in S. Ambro<»io to the roof boardin<i^, in S. Micheloa foot or two above the roof, abuttint;- against the nave wall. Thosewalls constitute in effect a series of concealed flying buttresses… … Fig. Go. Interior of IS. Michele. greater nave piers, and in S. Ambrogio by smaller ones opposite theintermediate piers. In the disposition of the bay which is covered by the dome, thetwo churches are strikingly dissimilar. In the case of San Ambrogiothere is no apparent preparation for the dome,^…
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