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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 194

An illustration from A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance, 1901, leaf 194 — tinued in thedome. Both dome and aisle are, as is general in these buildings,without wooden roofs, but they retain the outward form of such roofs,the masonry being filled in above the dome until it assumes the out-line of a cone, and above the vault of the aisle an inclined planeof masonry being… … Fig. 10;J. Albenga. Baptistery. 164 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY The exterior is simple, the only decorative feature being the small arched corbel - table ofred and white bricks(the walls, exterior andinterior, are of stone)which finishes the upperand the lower wall.Each of the sixteensides of the upper…

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