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 160
ys like those of the nave and choir, and the crossing is covered byan octagonal lantern or tower in two stories with cupola. (Fig. 329.) THE MONASTERIES 143 The piers of the nave arcades are square, with simple, engaged columnson three sides carrying the arches of the nave and the transversearch of… … Fig-. 331. Fossanova. Exterior of Church. corbel some eight feet above it, and rises to take the spring of thetransverse arch of the nave. There are no capitals except those ofthe engaged shafts, which are well developed, with strong knobs atthe angles, supporting the high abacus, and with simple…
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