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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 194

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92). The same style appears in more flamboyant shape in EARLV MEDI.EVAL ARCHITECTURE. l6l some of the churches of Lucca. The cathedral S. Martino(1060; fayade, 1204 ; nave altered in fourteenth century) isthe finest and largest of these; S. Michele (fagade, 1288)and S. Frediano (twelfth century)… … FIG. 93.—INTERIOR OF FISA CATHEDRAL. FLORENCE. The church of S. Miniato, in the suburbs ofFlorence, is a beautiful example of a modification of thePisan style. It is in plan a basilica with two piers inter-rupting the colonnade on each side of the nave and sup-porting powerful transverse arches.…

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