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 93
ilican cluirches of Ravennaof a century before. The atrium has disai)poared. The fa(;ade hasa simple inclosed porch, as broad as the nave, with a single arch inthe face and one in each of the ends. This, as well as the squarebell-tower which rises at the extremity of the right hand aisle, at… … Fig^. 4:J. Apse of Torcello. ])r()vided with circular })anels sunk so as to leave but a thin film ofalabaster at the back, through which a certain amount of light isable to pass. The crypt under the apse forms a lialf-ring about sixfeet wide, with semicircular niche in the middle lighted by a…
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