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-. 79. IS. Michele, Pavia. those of the first range in the centre. The most remarkable fea-ture of the front is, however, the eaves gallery, which follows therake of the cornice. It is, perhaps, the earliest instance of this most 128 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY chavaeteiistic feature, aiul it is singular to find it here perfectly devel-()))ed. The gallery has a depth of about two or three feet; its flooris a series of steps, on each of which is set a small shaft with baseand capital. Each capital is joined to the wall by a lintel, and thelintels are joined by round arches of the full depth of the gallery.There are nine arches in the central compartment, and six in each ofthe sides. Few architectural features are more effective than this, ormore happily calculated to relieve the heavy monotony of these other-wise unbroken fayades. There is no wonder, then, that it became sogeneral in the Lombard churches, and was continued long after thechimsy weight and awkwardness of the early Lombard m

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