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 220
sses for the high clerestory. The exte-rior of Santa Croce is not more interesting than the interior, having ^ Had the choir followed the usual Italian plan, and been made of the same width asthe nave, the church would have had, in a vaulted polygonal apse, sixty feet broad, afeature which would… … Fig. 373. Florence. Cathedral. 206 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY scarcely any architectural character. The faQade was, as so oftenhappened, left unfinished, and was only completed in the middle ofthe nineteenth century, through the liberality of an English gentle-man, its design following a drawing by…
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