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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orm of square piersset diagonally on the wall like those of the fa^ade. Between these,under the cornice of the aisle, decorated with a carved frieze and anarched corbel-table, rnns a small arcade of round arches on slendercolumns, continuing that on the fa9ade. The fine campanile, whichstands detached on the south flank, has a plain wall, with alternatecourses of white marble and brick, and a belfry, with two ranges ofopen triple arcades, crowned by a round spire with pinnacles at theangles. The cloister on the north tlank of the church, dating probably fromthe middle of the twelfth century, is beautiful, with pointed arcadesof brickwork on one side and round arcades on the other three. Thescale is unusually small ; the arches spring from small coupled col-umns five and one half inches in diameter, of red Verona marble, withwhite marble bases and capitals, standing on a low wall of stone-work. A lavabo, eighteen feet square, with round arches on eachside, ))roje(ts into the enclosure.
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