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 96
stored in theninth century and again in theeleventh century, still shows usits original disposition of partsand much of its actual con-struction and decoration. Itis a rectangular basilica, meas-uring within the walls seventyfeet in breadth and one hun-dred and eighteen feet inlength. (Fig. 42.)… … Fig. 42. Torcello. Cathedral and S. Fosea. Stilt-blocks, terminate each in a semicircular apse, of which the cen-tral one alone belongs to the original construction. This apse is themost striking and instructive feature of the church, since it showsus, as no other existing example does, what was…
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