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 139
Michele. greater nave piers, and in S. Ambrogio by smaller ones opposite theintermediate piers. In the disposition of the bay which is covered by the dome, thetwo churches are strikingly dissimilar. In the case of San Ambrogiothere is no apjiarent jJieparation for the dome,^ the treatment of the ^… … Fig. 64. Section of eastern portion of S. Ambrogio. bay beneath it varying in no respect from that of the other bays,except that the lateral arches are of two orders. At the level oftheir crown, double sqninches are turned in the four angles, effectingthe transposition to the octagonal plan, npon…
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