Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 291
plete and elegant of Italian Gothic in-teriors, having a genuine triforium with traceried arches.Even here, however, there are round arches without mould-ings, flat pilasters, broad transverse ribs recalling Romanarches, and insignificant bulls-eyes in the clearstory. The failure to produce… … FIG. 149.—ONE BAY, NAVE OF CATHEDRAL OF SAN MARTINO, LUCCA. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY. 259 arches each over 55 feet in span. The immense vault, insquare bays, starts from the level of the tops of thesearches. The interior (Fig. 14S) is singularly naked and cold,giving no conception of its vast…
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