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 308
erior is of the mingling of two opposite streams of influence. Itsinsjjiration is in the first instance clearly classical, like that of theearlier Pisan churches, and derived from the early basilicas of Rome ;yet another influence carries it far beyond the likeness of any Romanexample. The great… … Fig. 214. Pisa. Cathedral. the developed choir beyond the transept, the grouped arches of thetriforium, and most of all the central dome above the crossing, provethat the strong Lombard architecture, which had for two centuriesbeen covering the North of Italy with its rude and sombre churches,had…
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