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 239
ate for the ab-sence of form whichresults necessarilyfrom the dispositionof the parts of thedesign. The westfront, with its contin-uous gable line, is asprimitive in its con-ception as that of SanMichele at Pavia, andits flatness is relievedonly by the buttresseswhich mark the inner divisions of… … Fig. 385. Messina. Detail of Doorway. THE GOTHIC 225 all. The transepts are spoiled by the small and awkward apse, whichblocks up what would otherwise be a fine central window, and bythe flattening of thesable in the middledivision; while thelantern at the cross-ing, which was meantto be the great…
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