Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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S.mMATO AL nONTEFLORENCE 1 t r c t s. c; r SCALE or rEET Fig. 55- nine bays are divided into groups of three by large pierswhich carry semi-circular arches across the nave. Theseare counterthrust by arches across the aisles. Here weThe crypt find an early example of the spacious crypt, open to thenave, occasioning a great elevation of the choir above,which became fashionable in Italy, at Verona, Modenaand elsewhere, and was formed at S. Lorenzo in Rome in PlaU LXVIl
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Phot. \\x S. MINIATO AL MUMIl—1-i.UREALE CH. xvi) FLORENCE 247 the 13th century. The crypt or lower church was the s. Miniatoconfessioy where the body or relic of the saint was laid,just as had been the case with the older crypts which werenot thrown open to the church like this. The floor of the crypt being only four feet below that The raisedof the nave, the choir is very high and is reached on eachside by a considerable flight of steps (Plate LXVII). Theenclosure and ambo are of marble inlaid with a variety offigures, with a beautiful effect, showing a more advancedstyle than the primitive architecture of the nave andcrypt. The walls over the nave arches are faced withwhite marble divided into patterns by simple bands ofdark marble, probably a subsequent device, and the samedecoration is employed on the west front which is said tohave been re-built in the 14th century. The same styleof decoration with bands of dark marble dividing a surfaceof white into figures and compartments o

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