Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (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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Fig. 2o2. Pistoia. Door-head of S. Giovanni Fuorcivitas. solidity of construction than in the North, the walls are generally ofbrick, and in the facades marble is used in the form of thin platesoverlaying the brick as a veneer, instead of forming the substanceof the wall. This has its effect on the decoration, which is reducedfor the most part to surface decoration, to the exclusion of the solidcolumns and capitals and high relief of the Lucca churches. Of the Florentine architecture of the Romanesque period San 306 AliCHlTKCTURE IN ITALY IMiniato is the most familiar and the most characteristic example.s. Miniato, Originally of extreme antiquity, it was rebuilt in 1013 andFlorence, ^j^^^, following years. In j)lan it is radically different fromthe churches I have just been describing. There is here no tran-sept whatever. The plan is a simi)le rectangle of about seventyby one hundred and fifty feet, with a nave about thirty feet widebetween the columns, and two side aisles, with a rou

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