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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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Fig. 262. Acerenza Cathedral. into square bays by transversearches, transepts strongly project-ing, with small apse in the east wallof each. (Fig. 262.) Beyond thecrossing is a choir consisting of asingle square groined bay with around apse. To this was added,probably before the end of thetwelfth century,^ a surroundingaisle divided into groined bays,from three of which project radialapses or chapels. The arrangementis much the same as at Aversa, thetwo works being closely contem-porary. Yet, with this essentiallyFrench plan, the choir shows onthe exterior the hand of the Lom-bard architect. The wall is dividedby pilaster strips ending in anarched corbel-table, and the detailsare in accord with this thoroughlyLombard feature. Two slender 1 Mothes, pp. 341, 619; Schulz. 2 Mothes says begun by Bishop Arnold in 1080. Schulz agrees so far, but believesthe church to have been rebuilt two centuries later. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 39
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Fig. 263. Barletta. Exterior of Lombard and Norman Church. turrets in the angles between the transepts and the choir, as well a»battlements at the summit of the walls, indicate an attempt to fortifythe church.^ In both these churches it will be observed that thetransept, heretofore the most conspicuous portion of the structure,sinks into insignificance beside the fully developed choir. At Venosa the adherence to the French traditions was morethorough. Instead of altering or rebuilding the old basil- venosaica^ of the middle of the twelfth century, they built behind Cathedral. 1 Mothes, p. 604 ; Lenormant, in Gaz. Arch., 1883, p. 54 ; Schulz. ^ A basilica with a modified plan, the nave being divided by transverse arches, slightlyhorseshoe in form, into three bays springing from square piers, while in two of thebays the nave arcade has an intermediate pier, so that the aisle bays are doubled innumber. The plan so far resembles that of S. Sabina at Canosa. It should be said ofthese two

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