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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Ibid., ii., 35. ^ Ibid., i., 59, pi. 5, ix. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 49 external aspect of an early Roman church. Its porch has five pointedarches resting on antique columns of various sizes, with bases andcapitals of various form and of rather clumsy proportions. Thearches are much stilted, the central arch extravagantly so, its realspring being on a level with the crown of the side arches and itscrown cutting up through the horizontal cornice, which runs abovethe arcade. The depth of the porch is slight; it is covered bygroined vaults, except under the central arch, of which the soffit goesback to the wall of the church. On the capitals of the two middlecolumns are projecting corbels which seem as if intended to carry ashaft, perhaps supporting a gable crowning the arch, as in the centralwindow over the porch at Sessa. The church is of rude masonry,without conspicuous features, and the interior is of simple architec-ture, with arcades on columns and a flat clerestory wall above. Its
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h^ig. 2(39. Amalfi. Interior of Porch. chief interest lies in the frescoes by Greek artists contemporary withthe church, which cover the clerestory, the central apse, and the west 50 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY

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