Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (find matches)
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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le lessthan two hundred feet, its breadth about sixty-five feet. The navearcades are of pointed arches, carried on compound piers, of whichthree members toward the nave, in the form of engaged shafts,rise from the pavement to the vaulting, the middle shaft taking the ^ The solidarity of the monastic institution throughout Europe doubtless accounts forthe essential unity of the monastic style in all the Western countries. As always, theFrench examples are superior in refinement of design and completeness of plan to thoseof England, Germany, or Italy; but the Italian examples, being mostly by French archi-tects, exhibit a noticeable superiority to most of the native architecture of the time. THE MONASTERIES 139 spring of the transverse arch which separates the nave bays, and theothers that of the diagonal ribs of the pointed and groined vaults.The arrangement is the same in the bays of the aisles, a half-pier onthe outer wall answering in plan to the nave pier. This construction Giri*.n
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