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 134
vered by an octagonaldome, and from it opens a choirof a single bay with a round apse,and a crypt beneath, the floor ofthe choir being raised fourteensteps up from the nave, as in SanAmbrogio, so that the upper halfof the crypt is above the floor ofthe nave, with which, however, ithas not any… … Fig. 59. S. Ambrogio, Milan. disposition of parts there is great similarity between these two churches.In each the nave is divided into square bays ^ by strong- transverse 1 This description does not apply to San Michele in its present state, but is true of theoriginal construction. The vaulting of…
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