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 99
er, with composite capitals, carryingdetached blocks of entablature, from which spring round arches, sup-porting a solid wall, of which the upper part is a clerestory piercedwith twelve simple round-arched windows. This is, perhaps, theearliest instance of columns coupled in a direction opposite to… … S. Cos-tanza. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE 69 of which the construction follows that of the older Roman monu-ments. (Fig. 45.) It consists of twenty-four strong vertical ribs ofbrickwork joined by similar horizontal bands, the trapezoidal spacesbetween being filled with a strong plaster. The…
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