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 224
principal feature a great central octagon about onehundred and twenty-five feet in diameter, with octagonal apses open-ing from three sides, and nave and aisles from the fourth, — thewhole having a total interior length of about three hundred andeighty feet. The nave was now lengthened by some… … Fig. 374. Florence. Interior of Cathedral. and the diameter of the octagon increased to about one hundred andforty feet. The total interior length thus grew to about four hun-dred and eighty feet, and the breadth across the octagon to nearlythree hundred feet. The lengthened nave had, however, the…
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