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 148
y a doorway and on the sidesby several small windows, beyondwhich is the sanctuary, somewhatsmaller than the front portion, and consisting of three apses, one opposite the doorway, the otherson the sides, the middle one containing the altar. The neighboring grotto of the Cappucino Vecchio has a… … Metres Fig-. 323. Chapel of S. Nicola, nearMottola. 132 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY ending in an apse raised by sev^eral steps above the aisle, with alarge niche at the base, a stone bench running around the semi-circu-lar wall, and an altar at the centre of the circle. (Fig. 324.) Thefrescoes with which…
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