A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 357
to have been adome 130 ft. in diameter, or only C> ft. less than that of Florence, andthe width of both nave and transepts was to have been 183 ft.: so thatthe whole would have covered about 212,000 ft., or nearly the samearea as St. Peters at Rome, and three times that of any Frenchcathedral!… … Plan of the part executed of St. Petronio.Bologna. (From Wiebeking.)Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. Bk. VIII. Ch. III. CATHEDRAL OF BOLOGNA. 337 in its state of greatest perfection. The only other building in thesame style on a sufficient scale to admit of comparison with this is thenave of the cathedral at…
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