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 162
calefactoriura, or warming-room, — the only room in the monastery except the kitchen where a.fire was allowed. Outside the central block of buildings were various supplementarystructures of greater or less importance in the daily life of themonastery. Of these the most conspicuous was the infirmary… … Fig. 332. Fossanova. Interior of Chapter-house. 146 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY consoles in the wall, and which carried the wooden roof. The rubblemasonry which filled the spaces between these arches and the roofhas fallen away, but these fine, thin arches still stand in perfect con-dition, an…
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