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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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ed corbel-tables, anda hexagonal bell-tower standsFig-. 348. Florence. S. M. Novella. on the north of the clioir, ^ The eliurch has been attributed by Vasari to Jacopo Tadesco, the same Jacob ofMeran who was the architect of !S. Francesco at Assisi, but who appears to have died asearly as 1252, a quarter of a century before S. Pietro was begun. With more probabil-ity, it is credited to Marg-heritone, a citizen of Arezzo, of whom we hear that he Avascalled to Ancona in 1270 to build a palace, and that he was concerned while there withsome portion of the works of S. Ciriaco. See Mothes, p. 754; Schnaase, vii., p. 166. y\ >.. -■■•/ ❌r> 1 h ll IBi K ■ H y X / \ / •. •■■ ■•••.. ./•■■ i \/ \/\, X \ ^ —=H ■■•■- .•■ \ / t- a ^ ^ 1 K ^ r^ ^ ■■-X- ^ ? y fr ~^ \ ! ^ ^ Yi 1 \» A ..-•■ \ fe- ^ \ \ / P; i \ i i ii A;. i • ? \ /\ / y/\ \ / A/ \ ^ ^i \ /\/ X /\ lii \ y / \ / A \ 7 ■•••. / i\ / A d ■HiMiA flihidi 8 THE GOTHIC 171
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Fig-. 349. Arezzo. East End of S. Pietro. with three stages, of which the two upper have a single narrowpointed opening in each face, pilaster strips at the angles joined byan arcaded cornice and string-course, and a flat roof. The apse,however, offers a contrast to the general treatment in the long,narrow, pointed windows which fill its faces. (J^^g- 349.) Santa Maria Novella, built from the design of two Dominicanmonks, Era Sisto and Fra Ristoro, is of very different character.Like San Pietro, it has a nave and aisles, each in six „ ,, . ^ \ ^ S. Maria vaulted bays, square in the nave and oblons^ in the aisles, Noveiia, •11 ^ 1 1 • Florence. With ponited arcades carried on piers whose plan is asquare with an engaged shaft on each face. But here the nave andaisles form but one arm of a well-developed Latin cross, three hun-dred and twenty feet long and eighty-eight feet wide, the transeptbeing in three square bays, like the bays of the nave, those of thetransept ends having an

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