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 113
e East, of small earthenpots of peculiar shape (see Fig. 49) laid in a thick bed of cement.The shell of the dome is composed of two layers of these pots, andhas a thickness of less than twelve inches. The dome is thus, as inthe case of the baptistery, of extraordinary lightness; and its weightand… … Fig. .55. S. Vitale, Ravenna. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE 83 flat, springing from the buttresses of the outer aisle wall to the baseof the dome between the vaulting of the aisles and the wooden aisleroofs. The vaulting, both of dome and aisle, is covered by woodenroofs, — another particular in…
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