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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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e middle one having originally been flanked by slendercolumns resting on elephants and supporting grotesque beasts, ofwhich another crowns the arch. The treatment is of much the samecharacter with that of the high apse windows which are so conspicuousa feature in the east ends of these churches. The columns are gone,as is also the tracery of a large wheel window above. This window,as well as the gable which follows the interior outline of the church,is decorated with a small, delicate, carved ornament, in strong con-trast to the usual vigorous corbel-table of the Lombard fagades.The front is flanked on the south by a tall square campanile, whosewall continues that of the fa9ade, divided into six stages, of whichthe first is a broad and high pointed arch allowing a thoroughfarebeneath the tower, while the others have each a grouped window ineach face divided by columns and with openings increasing regularlyin number towards the summit, the belfry having five. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 29
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Fig. 259. Trani. Portion of South Flank, showing Transept. The western doorways are entered from a raised terrace some tenfeet above the ground, extending along the whole front of the church,and approached by a double staircase, under which is the entranceto the remarkable crypt mentioned later. Along the front of theterrace is a line of bases which may be either the remains of anarcade formerly extending on each side of the central porch or thepreparation for one which was never built. The flanks are very interesting. Here is the usual blind arcadeon the aisle wall; but in this case the arches spring not from flat 30 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY pilasters, but from well-marked buttresses with simple base and capi-tal opposite the nave columns. There is no triforium arcade as atBari and Bitonto, but a small simple round-avched window in thehead of each arch lights the aisle, and is repeated in the triforiumwall above and in the low clerestory. The blind arcade is continuedon the transept, bu

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