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Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tioned in severalimportant respects.Its nave, transepts,and choir are divided into square bays, four in the nave, one in each transept, and one inthe choir. The aisles are also in square bays, of which two answerto each bay of the nave, the vaulting of the aisles being effected bymeans of an intermediate column between the great nave piers, andthe large squares of the nave and the small squares of the aislesbeing covered alike with quadripartite vaults. This is not theFrench arrangement, so closely adhered to in the other monasticchurches of which I have spoken above, but the Lombard arrange-ment, as seen in San Ambrogio at Milan, San Michele at Pavia, andmost of the characteristic Lombard churches of Northern Italy. Inthe transepts this disposition is modified by the interposition of anintermediate transverse arch thrown across the square bay, dividingthe two lateral cells of the vault, which thus becomes sexpartite. Asimilar construction was apparently intended in the nave, of which
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Fig. 337. S. Galgano. Interior of Church. 152 architecturp: in italy the bay next the transept shows on the upper wall the intermediatetransverse arch across the nave ; the intention being further indicated by two windows in the clerestorywhich, had the intention been car-ried out, would have occupied theheads of the two wall-arches of thevault.^ The choir of the church alsoshows a return to the Romanesqueform, and instead of the two oblongbays of the earlier Cistercian churches,shows a single oblong bay, in line withthe flanking chapels, and a projectingoctagonal apse with vaulting ribsspringing from angle-shafts, and onthe exterior strong angle buttresses. Of the other buildings which madeup the extensive group which belongedto the monastery, the greater partwere destroyed or entirely rebuilt forquite different uses, in the middleof the seventeenth century.^ As atFossanova and Casamari, the mostimportant of the conventual buildingsseem to have been disposed in linewith the transept

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