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 160
lt of the apse, and this was doneby constructing a series of deep niches, square in plan and covered each by a round arch.These niches are in groups of three, separated by the long pilaster strips Avhich rise fromground to cornice, and divide the surface of the apse into five compartments, in three… … Fi-. so. S. Ambrogio, Milan ; Lantern and TovveiS. The octaoonal lantern which marks the dome is also embellishedboth in San Michele and in San Ambrogio by arcaded galleries ofsimilar construction to those of the eaves. In the latter churchthere are two stories of galleries, the lower smaller, and…
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