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 156
s was donebv constructing a series <»f deej> niches, stjuare in jdan and covered each by a round arch.These niches are in groups of three, separated by tlie long pilaster strips which rise fromprotmd to cornice, and divide the surface of the apse into five compartments, in three ofwhich are… … Fig. 80. S. x\mbrogio, Milan ; Lanteru and Towers. The octagonal lantern which marks the dome is also embellishedboth in San Michele and in San Ambrogio by arcaded galleries ofsimilar construction to those of the eaves. In the latter churchthere are two stories of galleries, the lower smaller, and…
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