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 188
avement;and outside the arcadea surrounding aisle about eighteen feet wide, divided into bays alter-nately square and triangular, by transverse arches, of which two springfrom each pier of the ai-cade to the outside wall, the square baysbeing covered by groined vaults. The exterior wall of the… … ■•f% 158 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY from the walls of the drum without a cornice. On the exterior thesame plainness prevails, so far as the aisle wall is concerned. Butthe central wall, which rises nearly to the height of the dome, andis crowned by a low-pitched conical roof, is divided into…
Architecture -- Italy History
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