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 122
central apse is very nearly equal to thelength of the nave, taken in connection with the unusual heightto which the choir and the central apse are carried above the roof ofthe nave and transept (the central apse is eighty-five feet high tothe crown of its vault), gives to the eastern portion of the… … Fig. 309. Palermo. Chiesa dei Vespri. 106 ARCHITPXTURE IN ITALY other parts of the church except the apses, is covered by an openwooden roof of low pitch, brilliantly decorated with gold and color.The roof of the crossing ends in a low gable to the east and west,and below it on three sides are…
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