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 57
ows and no triforium. Nave and aislesare covered by a flat wood ceiling. The transepts, which projectboldly beyond the aisle walls, are each in a single square bay coveredby a groined vault, of which the ribs spring from shafts in the anglesof the bay. The apse of the Lombard churches is replaced… … Fig. 265. Caserta Vecchia. Cathedral. plan is brought to. an octagon by concentric arches in the angles.In each side of the octagonal drum are three round arches on slendercolumns. In each angle of the octagon is a slender shaft, from whicha rib springs to the crown of the dome. The dome, indeed,…
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