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 150
ows. The columns of the navearcades are massive, having a diameterof nearly or quite three feet, with plainand rude block capitals : those of theouter arcades are scarcely a third aslarge, but of the same character. Theplan has some interesting peculiaritieswhich show how the Lombard influ-ence has… … 124 ARCHITPXTURE IN ITALY first columns of the nave arcades are replaced by compound pierswith engaged columns, from which a transverse arch is thrown acrossthe nave. At the other end of the church all the arcades terminatein compound piers of more complicated section, between which trans-verse…
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