Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 292
ewhat un-usual in Italian church-es. Orvieto has inter-nally little that sug-gests Gothic archi-tecture ; like manyFranciscan and Dominican churches it is really a timber-roofed basilica with a few pointed windows. The mixedGothic and Romanesque interior of Sienna Cathedral (Fig.150), w^ith its… … FIG. 150.—INTERIOR OF SIENNA CATHEDRAL. 26o HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. repose to the effect of this interior : the same is true ofOrvieto, and of some other churches. The basement bap-tistery of S. Giovanni, under the east end of Sienna Cathe-dral, is much more purely Gothic in detail. In these, and…
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