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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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) The aisle and clerestory walls present a series of blind arcadesin rude brickwork, of wliich each arch contained originally a broadwindow. Most of these have now been walled u)). The round cam-panile stands detached at the side of the left hand aisle ; it has been ^ IIiil)srli, J). .; Dartein ; Mothes, p. 155. KAIII.V ClIKISriAN AKCmiKi n KK 69 piTSUiuid to be o( the same :i<;e with the church, l)ut this is <h)uhtful.The interior is a rect:inj;lo ninety-ei«;ht feet hroad and al)nt oneluintlred and lifty feet h)n«;, without transepts, hut with the nave ter-minating, as in all the churches of Ravenna, in an apse polygonal with-out, circular within. The nave and aisles art sej)arated by an^adeson either side, of twelve colunnis of veined marble somewhat morethan two feet in diameter, resting on square plinth-blocks, withrichly foliated capitals, in which, as in those of the earlier groupof basilicas, we see the hand of the Byzantine artist. These are
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Fi. A()c)iiiiiaiv jn v lasse. surmounted by stilt-blocks of somewhat less rude design than thoseof S. x^Lpollinare Nuovo, but like them bearing for all ornament a sim-ple cross on the face towards the nave. From the stilt-blocks springround arches of about nine feet span, with archivolts and panelledsoffits of stucco.^ A broad frieze about five and a half feet highinclosed between moulded belts surmounts the arcade, consisting ofa series of circular medallions containing painted busts of the ancientbishops of Ravenna. These paintings are modern substitutes forthe original mosaics, which, with the marble slabs formerly facing thewalls of the aisles, were stolen in the fifteenth century by Count ^ Nave arcades given in outline in Dehli. Bi/z. Orn.. vol. ii. pi. 50. 60 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Malatesta to serve in the rebuilding of the cathedral of Kiniini, alittle further down the coast. The clerestory walls are absolutelyban. The church was unroofed and open to the weather

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