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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separate race of builders. The plan(Fig. 242), though similar to that of the cathedral, has yet somepoints of difference. It is a little larger, — the total length beingabout two hundred feet and the breadth one hundred and ten. The that in all these instances— Bari, Molfetta, Bitonto— the arrangement of the east end wascomplete as early as 1034, nearly half a century before the Normans had begun to maketheir influence felt in the architecture of this region. See Mothes, pp. 340, 387, 391. 1 Mothes, p. 387; Schulz, vol. i., p. 21, pis. 1, 5, 7. ^ See Dantier, Lltalie, vol. i., p. 20.5, for a picturesque account of the rivalry betweenBari and Venice for the possession of the body of the venerable and beloved archbishopof Myra, and of its final transport to Bari. T 10 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY nave, about thirty-six feet wide, is separated from the aisles byarcades of six broad round arches on columns of antique granite,with composite capitals of unusual height and of various design.
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Fig. 242. Bari. S. Nicola. Plan and Section. These arcades are separated into groups of three arches by pierswith an engaged column on each of three faces, the column towardsthe nave taking the spring of a transverse arch, which spans thenave. The two westernmost columns of the nave arcade have eacha similar column set against them on the nave side, answering to theengaged column of the pier, from which also transverse arches like THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 11 that just mentioned are thrown across the nave, the western half ofwhich is thus divided into oblong bays, as if in preparation forvaulting. But that this was not the object is shown by the fact thatthe arches are very low, springing from the same level as the navearches, and that the walls which are carried up over them reachonly the height of the string-course under the trif orium arcade, whichis continued around the cross-wall as a cornice. The object wasdoubtless to insure the stability of the structure. A similar arrange-ment

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