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 178
lt-ing. The church is verysombre, nearly the only lightcoming from the small win-dows of the polygonal chap-els of the transepts. Allthe surfaces are coveredwith frescoes, and the effectis that of a sumptuous crypt.(Figs. 342, 343, 344.) To this gloomy but im-pressive and beautiful inte-rior, the… … Fig. 343. Assisi. Longitudinal Section of S. Francesco. lightful contrast. Its plan is a long Latin cross, the whole lengthbeing nearly two hundred and forty feet, with a breadth across thetransept of one hundred feet. The nave has the breadth of the naveof the lower church, and there are no…
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