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 299
^ The same may be said of two small octagonal churches also at Pisa, Sant Agata and San Sepolcro (Figs. 210, 211, 212), both thoroughly Lombardmonuments. In theformer, the inside dia-meter is about twenty-three feet: there is nodivision of the inte-rior : the angles of theexterior are marked… … Fig-. 211. Pisa. S. Sepolcro. i octagonal roof. San Sepolcro, ])erhaps fifty years later than SantAgata, was built as a Templar church on the return of some ofthe Pisan Crusaders about 1120, with an inner octagon thirtyfeet in diameter, of high j)ointed arches, springing from strongpiers, covered…
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