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 48
quare niches inthe thickness of the wall. In the cathedral at Altamura (eleventh century, altered underFrederick II. in the thirteenth century) we may note a Aitamurawider departure from the Lombard type. In the interior Cathedral,the compound pier which we observed at Bitonto, dividing the… … LJ i r i ,1 n LLL liiliffiMr ■ ■ T Fig. 260. Trani. Plan of Cathedral and Crypt. purpose of the piers is carried out — or at least partially so — bytransverse arches spanning the nave, carrying the wall, which ter-minates at the height of the triforium string, as at San Nicola,Bari. As at Bitonto,…
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