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 169
ed niches with a square plan, and the uppermost consisting ofa continuous open arcaded gallery with large arches on square piers.There is little or no analogy with any other ai)se now existing. Theinterior of tlie wall has at the centre a laroe semicircular nichewhich penetrates tlie outer line of… … Fig. 85. S. .Sofia, Padua. THE LOMBARD ROMANESQUE lo9 side, extending quite around the semicircle. The connection of thelater church with this great apse is curiously characteristic of therudeness or carelessness which wfiif hand in hand with so much occa-sional refinement.…
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