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 135
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,^ the treatment of the ^ It… … Fig. 04. ^Section of eastern portion of iS. Ambrogio. bay beneath it varying in no respect from that of the other bays,except that the lateral arches are of two orders. At the level oftheir crown, double squinches are turned in the four angles, effectingthe transposition to the octagonal plan, upon…
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