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 146
ibs. Theimpression given is that the pierswere arranged in preparation fora system of sexpartite vaultingin square compartments, such as prevails in the two churches ofPiacenza described above, and that the plan was changed after thewalls had reached the height of the upper capitals. In this… … Parma Cathedral. 120 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY a single small clerestory window, under the sharply pointed arch ofthe vault. The church has one of the most remarkable crypts inItaly, of unusual height, and extending under the whole of the tran-sept and choir, and one bay of the nave and aisles. Modena…
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