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 173
yzantines, themaskino- of the inteiior dome, whose vertical section was either round,as in S. Michele, or pointed, as in S. Ambrogio, by the vertical exter-nal wall crowned with the low wooden roof, the round-arched windowsin the faces of the octagon, and the arcaded eaves gallery above. Itis… … Central Tower. instances is seen in San Antoninoat Piacenza (Fig. 72, supra),where the central feature of thecrossing is not a dome at all, buta square four-part groined vaultlike those of the nave, but higher,over which an octagonal tower iscarried uj) to the height of foursimilar stories, with a…
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