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 197
building than the moreregular and finished baptisteryof Biella. From two oppositesides of the aisle of the secondstory open small apses, of whichone contains the remains of analtar, while the other affordsaccess to the two narrow stair-cases which connect the twostories. The ancient baptismalfont,… … Fig. lO(). (ialliauo. Baptistery. THE LOMBARD ROMANESQUE 167 assigned to the middle of the eighth century, but which seems tooperfect a building both in plan and construction for thatrude age. It consists (Fig. 107) of a central octagon, withan inside diameter of about sixteen feet, surrounded by a…
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