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 28
om which a single broad round arch is car-ried across the transept, which is thus divided into three bays. Thetransept being of unusual breadth, these bays are oblong in form ;nevertheless, the central one was to have been covered, as in thecathedral, by an octagonal lantern, which, however, got no… … Fig. 243. S. Nicola. Crypt. 12 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY recess in the axis of the aisles. The transept is entered from thenave through a screen of three round arches on columns similar tothose of the nave. Its floor is raised by three steps above that ofthe nave, and beneath it is an ancient crypt…
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