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 295
)ort transverse arches across the naveand aisles, the central one of whicli has some-what the character of the triumphal arch of theRoman basilicas. Beyond these arches is a broadtransept not projecting beyond the aisle walls,divided into three portions by single arches intlie line of the nave… … Fig. LOd. ToHtaiiella.ijf Pietro. INK (i;nikai. k()Manks(7i;k 269 sions li;i\c ;ii>si(l:il niclies. Tlic floor ol* tli«; transept is ruised somefeet above that of the nave, and l)uiu:itli it is a lin«; (•ry])t. These;ehurches must be aniong the earliest examples of a vaulUd cryptoceiipyiii<;…
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