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 136
disposition, and it is to be remarked that San Aiiil)rof;io oilersin this respect an abnost nnicpie variation from tlu; rule, an exce])tionmade possible by tlu^ lowness of the dome, which makes the vaultingof the aisles a suftieient buttress. It should be said here that the cruciform i)lan of S.… … Fig. 05. Longitudinal Section of S. Michele. and in which the transept is marked not by projection, but by thesuperior height of its bays and the contrasted form of their vaults. The timidity of the early Lombard builders is shown in S. Ambro-sio by the small elevation of the nave above the aisles.…
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