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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strong square buttresses rising from theground to the cornice of the apse ; also in S. Celso, where the arches are in groups ofthree. This division of the apse into vertical compartments by means of pilaster strips or en-gaged shafts is as characteristic of the Lombard work as the similar division of the westfront, and survived far into the later days when the Lombard style had undergone veryessential modifications. 130 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY each face of the octagon into two groups of arches, — the upper witha continuous arcade of five arches on the larger faces and three onthe smaller. (Fig. 80.) San Babile at Milan has a similar treatment in its octagonallantern, which has on each face a group of three arches on slendercolumns. There is here, however, no gallery, the wall sloping back-ward from the bases of the columns, as in the apse of the samechurch.^ It is only natural that in Pavia, so long the Lombard capital, theLombard architecture should, even after the Lombard domination
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Fig. 81. S. Pittro 111 t i»i() (i (Mo. r.i\i.i. liad ceased, have clung more faithfully to the type than elsewhere.Several of the churclies which still remain in that city S. Pietro . . , . ^ -^r- i i o -r»« • in Cieio are sini^ulariv close in desiirn to l^an Michele. S. letro in Cielo d Oro is perhaps the most notable of these. I have already described its interior disposition. Comi)ariiig its facade ^ Romussi. p. ;i44. riiK LoMi.Ain) i;().MA.\Ks(^rp: i:u (Fif?. 81) with tliJit of San Micholc, we find tlic same simplicity ofoutline, without regard to the section of the church ))ehin(l it; thesame vertical division into thre(? compartmcnits ; tlie same eaves-allery ; tlu same arranj^^ement of small windows in the c(;ntral divi-sion. DitYorences of detail there are, as in the addition of the inter-lacing arches of the caves cornice, the form of the dividing ))ilasters,of which one is made broad and salient to give room for a spiral stairwithin, the subdi-vision of the thre

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