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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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y transversearches into six square bays, covered by groined vaults. From fourof the six bays open rectangular chapels; the corresponding spacesoutside the other two being occupied by recessed porches, with door-ways into the aisles. Over the aisles are galleries, of which thearcades opening into the nave are counterparts of those formerlyexisting in the cathedral. The capitals of these arcades are beautifulexamples of the best Byzantine work. The nave arcades terminatein a large square pier, from which a single broad round arch is car-ried across the transept, which is thus divided into three bays. Thetransept being of unusual breadth, these bays are oblong in form ;nevertheless, the central one was to have been covered, as in thecathedral, by an octagonal lantern, which, however, got no furtherthan the simple squinches in the spandrils of the transverse arches.From the central bay opens the usual round apse; the side bayshave each a rudimentary apse in the form of a shallow segmental
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Fig. 243. S. Nicola. Crypt. 12 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY recess in the axis of the aisles. The transept is entered from thenave through a screen of three round arches on columns similar tothose of the nave. Its floor is raised by three steps above that ofthe nave, and beneath it is an ancient crypt belonging to the churchof the ninth century, but enlarged and beautified, in the rebuilding of1087, to receive the body of the saint. (Fig. 243.) It is dividedinto square groined bays, by eight lines of columns of all lengthsand sizes and materials, with capitals of various and interestingdesign, mostly Byzantine in character, with rude stilt-blocks takingthe spring of the arches. The exterior of the church is not less characteristic than theinterior. The facade (Fig. 244), broad and somewhat bare, hasthe common Lombard division into three compartments by means ofsquare pilasters, which here rest on stout engaged columns rising ashigh as the first stage. The gables and half gables are finished

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