. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. divided into three bays, and isterminated at each end (except that occupied by the doorway justmentioned) by a polygonal chapel of somewhat later date. Thenave, about forty feet broad, is in three square bays, and is boundedby very low round arches carried on massive round piers eight feetin diameter and seven feet high^ and similar arches divide the baysof the nave, which, as well as the square of the crossing, are covered by slightly domed four-partvaults, built on strongsquare ribs sixteen inch
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. divided into three bays, and isterminated at each end (except that occupied by the doorway justmentioned) by a polygonal chapel of somewhat later date. Thenave, about forty feet broad, is in three square bays, and is boundedby very low round arches carried on massive round piers eight feetin diameter and seven feet high^ and similar arches divide the baysof the nave, which, as well as the square of the crossing, are covered by slightly domed four-partvaults, built on strongsquare ribs sixteen inchesbroad, the transept ends be-ing covered by round barrel-vaults and the semicircularapse by a hemispherical semi-dome. The bays of the east-ern transept or narthex arecovered by sexpartite vault-ing. The church is verysombre, nearly the only lightcoming from the small win-dows of the polygonal chap-els of the transepts. Allthe surfaces are coveredwith frescoes, and the effectis that of a sumptuous crypt.(Figs. 342, 343, 344.) To this gloomy but im-pressive and beautiful inte-the upper church.
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