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 103
mporary, perhapsslightly later, church of S. Cataldo, with much the same generalcharacteristics. The principle of the Greek cross, here, as in theMartorana, governs the disposition, although the plan is not a square,but a rectangle measuring about twenty-five by thirty-three feetwithin the walls.… … Fig. 293. Palermo. S. Cataldo. the circle is made bytwo stages, an octa-gon intervening be-tween the lower andupper plans. Thedrum is pierced byeight simple pointedwindows, and foursmall windows, round-arched, are set at thebase of the dome it-self. The domes, asin all the Eastern ex-amples, and…
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