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 296
hurches must be aniong the earliest examples of a vaulUd cryptoceiipyiii<; the whole space beneath the transept. In San I*i«tro(Fig. 20(5) the arches of the transept converge sharply towards tlu;east end, for what reason does not a])p(ar, and in Santa Maria thereis a sliiiht eonvt>ri»enee of… … Fig. 207. Toscanella. S. Pietro. are Corinthian. The arcades are surmounted by a moulded cornicewith carved consoles, above which is a comparatively low clerestory,w4th a single small round-arched window over each arch. In SanPietro (Fig. 207) the nave arches rest on stout columns of varioussizes,…
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