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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 42

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t characteristi-cally Lombard caprice. At Siponto the half-ruined churchof S. Maria ■Maggiore shows also, butto a less degree, the Pisaninfluence. Of the origi-nal church of about 1100,only the external wallsremain, the interior hav-ing been reconstructed in^1508. It is a square ofabout sixty feet,… … Fig. 256. Troja. Portion of Apse. 26 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY the arches. The eastern side is similarly treated, including the apseas well as the flat wall from which it projects. The church has an interesting crypt, divided by columns andarches into twenty-five square bays covered by groined vaults,…

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