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 200
the square bay of the cross-ing and the square choir, which opens from it, each of which iscovered by a simple four-part vault, that of the crossing springingfrom clustered piers at the angles. The choir has in its east walla tall two-light pointed window, with very poor and thin tracery.The aisles… … Fig. 357. Siena. Doorway in New Portion. 186 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Of the exterior, the fa9a(le, begun in 1310, twenty years after thechurch itself was founded, is the only portion which has receivedany special architectural treatment, and no attempt whatever hasbeen made to bring it into harmony…
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