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 153
e of rude and heavy design,with massive round piers supporting ponderous arches and low groinedvaults. The latest, that of Chiaravalle di Castagnola, is of muchlighter and more advanced construction, and is probably the earliestexisting example of the introduction in Italy of the forms, and to… … Chiaravalle di Castagnola. Plan and Section. arm, of which the outer one projects beyond the aisle wall, and asmall choir in two bays, flanked on each side by two chapels corre-sponding to the bays of the transept arras, — the usual Cistercianplan. (Fig. 327.) The total length of the church is a…
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