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 155
ior shows in the clearest manner thehand of the French architect reproducing almost without modifica-tion the forms of the Gothic of France, the same can by no meansbe said of the exterior. The facade is a mere screen wall, entirelywithout relation to the church behind it in height, breadth, or… … Fig. 329. Fossanova. Section of Church. to a horizontal cornice above the ridge of the nave roof, and crownedby a low pediment. The windows of the flanks are all round-arched.The walls of aisles and clerestory have strongly projecting buttresses,and the thrust of the nave vaults is met by a wall…
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