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 102
ry, imme-diately after the seat ofoovernment had beenfixed at Ravenna, theoldest and probably thefinest of the noble groupof Christian basilicas,has disappeared beneaththe tasteless rebuildingof the seventeenth cen-tury, its round bell-toweralone remaining. Butthe baptistery, which wascontemporary… … ing, whose Fig. 47- Ravenna Baptistery. is nearly the same as that of the central ring of the tomb of Constantiaor the church at Nocera, — about thirty-seven feet. The interioris undivided, but the flat spherical dome which covers it springsdirectly from the outer walls, at a height of about…
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