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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
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Fig. 329. Fossanova. Section of Church. to a horizontal cornice above the ridge of the nave roof, and crownedby a low pediment. The windows of the flanks are all round-arched.The walls of aisles and clerestory have strongly projecting buttresses,and the thrust of the nave vaults is met by a wall carried up on thetransverse arches of the aisles above the aisle roof, and abuttingagainst the buttresses of the clerestory, a device adopted by the Lom-bard architects at least two centuries before, as seen in S. Ambrogio, ^ Enlart, p. 71 ; A. L. Frothingham, Jr., in Am. Jour, of Archceology, 1891, p. 286;Schnaase, vii., p. 106. i I THE MONASTERIES 141
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Fig-. 330. Fossanova. Interior. Milan. These walls are now solid, but their masonry affords evi-dence that the portion above the roof was originally an arch, whichhas been filled in with later brickwork. If this be so, we have hereprobably the first example in Italy of a flying buttress, though itsform is still rudimentary, and its adoption in this instance wasapparently unsuccessful. The effective use of this feature required, 142 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY in truth, more science and constructive skill than was possessed bythe Italian builders even at a period much later than that with whichwe are now concerned, which, it must be remembered, was the periodof the earlier of the great Gothic churches of France. St. Deniswas practically complete in 1150, and Notre Dame of Paris, Soissons,Autun, Langres, and many others were well under way before theend of the century. I have said that of the monastery at Castagnola, the church is theonly portion which remains to us of the original constructi

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