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 306
and on the east end by an order of thinpilasters, with a window in every alternate interval, but on the greateastern apse and on the apse of the south transept the arcade ofthe facade reappears as an open gallery, with a second gallery abovewithout arches. On the high clerestory and on the gable… … Fig. 215. Pisa. Cathedral and Campanile. 280 ARCHITECTURE IN TIALY The roofs of the nave and choir abut against and nearly smother thedrum, leaving free only the faces towards the transepts, whose roofsare considerably lower than that of the nave. This arrangementproduces the one serious defect in…
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