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 333
r baysby two piers in each of the nave arcades, each pier consisting of fourgrouped Corinthian half columns, of which that towards the naverises above the arcade, and takes the spring of a massive round archspanning the nave. From the opposite column of the pier a similararch spans the aisle. Over… … i hi^. S.jlu Florence, b. Miniato. arches fill each interval be-tween the great piers. Thearrangement is similar tothat of Santa Prassede atKome. The clerestory wallis ])ierced by five simpleround - arched windows ineach division. The aislesare without windows. Bothnave and aisles are coveredby…
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