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 43
its originalaspect.^ As in the North, so in the South, but less frequently, the circularBenevento, P^^^ ^^^^ sometimes adopted. The oldest and most inter-s. Sofia. esting example of this plan is to be seen in S. Sofia atBenevento, founded by Prince Arrigis in 774. The arrangement ispeculiar. (Fig.… … tween the two arcadesbeing divided intobays of various forms,triangular and trape-zoidal, covered byvaults and domes.A circular aisle en-closes the whole, di-vided into fourteenbays, of which themost easterly oneopens into a squaretribune, while on theopposite or westernside the circle isbroken by…
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