. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. see, the later fashions. But to thisrule we see a notable exception in San Pietro a Grado at Pisa, which,surrounded by churches of the later Romanesque style, still retainsits Lombard exterior, and might stand at Milan or Pavia, thew^alls of aisles, clerestory, and apses being divided into bays, not bypilasters and arches, but by flat pilaster strips joined by arched 272 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY corbel-tables, the latter feature being carried up the slopes of the gables in the true Lombard style.^ Th
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. see, the later fashions. But to thisrule we see a notable exception in San Pietro a Grado at Pisa, which,surrounded by churches of the later Romanesque style, still retainsits Lombard exterior, and might stand at Milan or Pavia, thew^alls of aisles, clerestory, and apses being divided into bays, not bypilasters and arches, but by flat pilaster strips joined by arched 272 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY corbel-tables, the latter feature being carried up the slopes of the gables in the true Lombard style.^ The same may be said of two small octagonal churches also at Pisa, Sant Agata and San Sepolcro (Figs. 210, 211, 212), both thoroughly Lombardmonuments. In theformer, the inside dia-meter is about twenty-three feet: there is nodivision of the inte-rior : the angles of theexterior are marked bypilaster strips, joinedat the eaves by anarched corbel - table ;in each face of theoctagon is a triple-arch window with mid-wall shafts and roundbearing arch; thewalls are of brick, andcarry a high pitched. Fig-. 211. Pisa. S. Sepolcro. i octagonal roof. San Sepolcro, ])erhaps fifty years later than SantAgata, was built as a Templar church on the return of some ofthe Pisan Crusaders about 1120, with an inner octagon thirtyfeet in diameter, of high j)ointed arches, springing from strongpiers, covered by a dome, and a very broad and high surroundingaisle covered by a wooden lean-to roof. The tenth century appears to have been all over Europe a period„ . , , of inaction and of susi)ense. Few churches were built, and Revival of , ^ i i o rni building few enterprises of moment The records ofeleventh this ccutury, wliicli may be regarded as the darkest periodof the dark ages, are extremely scanty: ^ but it seems cer-tain that a belief in the ai)proaching end of the world was very pre-valent, and that the year 1000 was to bring the moment of annihi-lation. That critical moment once pa
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