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 97
basilican churches of Ravennaof a century before. The atrium has disappeared. The facade hasa simple inclosed porch, as broad as the nave, with a single arch inthe face and one in each of the ends. This, as well as the squarebell-tower which rises at the extremity of the right hand aisle, at… … Fig. 4o. Apse of Torcello. provided with circular panels sunk so as to leave but a thin film ofalabaster at the back, through which a certain amount of light isable to pass. The crypt under the apse forms a half-ring about sixfeet wide, with semicircular niche in the middle lighted by a…
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