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 300
ne crypt. Thesechurches must be among the earliest examples of a vaulted cryptoccupying the whole space beneath the transept. In San Pietro(Fig. 206) the arches of the transept converge sharply towards theeast end, for what reason does not appear, and in Santa Maria thereis a slight convergence of… … Fig-. 207. Toscanella. S. Pietro. are Corinthian. The arcades are surmounted by a moulded cornicewith carved consoles, above which is a comparatively low clerestory,with a single small round-arched window over each arch. In SanPietro (Fig. 207) the nave arches rest on stout columns of varioussizes,…
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