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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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as to makeit seem probable that some of them at least may have been by thegj^n same arcliitoct. San Casciano, San Paolo a Ripa d Arno, Caaciano. <^.^jj Fi^ediauo, Sau ^Nlichele in Orticaja are the most impor-tant of these. The first named was originally a small basilicafounded in 805, with only three bays, but lengthened late in theeleventh century by the addition of five bays. Whether the exteriorwas brought to its ))resent form at tliat time or at the time of a laterrestoration in 1180 is not sure. The church is unfinislied above theaisle roofs, but as far as it goes the exterior follows closely the designof the cathedral. The fine blind arcade is carried all around, reach- rilK CKNTKAI. KO.MANKSQlK JHO inir on tho flanks to (lie coniicf ol tlu* aisle wall, with fiv(; an-lus ontill front, in tluoo of wliicli arc chaiacUriHtU! doorwjiyH, with thebroad i)ilasttis, the heavy lintel covcn-d with scMlpturc, and theronnd bearinii areii, which aro ))ecnliar to the ehutches of Liieea and
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Fig. 220. Pisa. Canipo Santo. Pisa. Above the light string which continues the aisle cornice isthe beginning of an upper stage, of which the close-set bases ofslender engaged colonnettes indicate an intended decoration inharmony with that of the completed first story. The upper wallsare, however, carried only high enough to allow of a small double-arched window in the centre of the front. The details are all classicin feeling, and of great refinement, many antique fragments beingavailed of in the decoration.^ The most interesting of the small churches of Pisa is S. Paoloa Ripa d Arno. I have spoken of its plan (Fig. 209)and its central dome, which was perhaps the forerunner of a Ripathat of the cathedral. The foundation of the church goesback to the earliest years of the ninth century, being thus almostexactly contemporary with that of S. Casciano. Its rebuildingappears to be assignable to the year 1060, which is three years 1 R. de Fleury, p. 36, pis. 4, 5; Mothes, p. 314. 290 ARCHIT

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