Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . n a p s i d e scovered exte-riorly with rect-angular van-dykes, is formedbetween the in-side half-basinand the exteriorwall should behidden or use-less in that ofS. Ambroise;but that itshould serve toform a series ofdeeply vaulted niches on a rectangular plan which, turning under the cornicevery near one another, should form a coronal frieze of certainand agreeable effect. Each little vault is sustained by small pillars, and has forarchivolt a second little concentric arch, slightly larger, whic
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . n a p s i d e scovered exte-riorly with rect-angular van-dykes, is formedbetween the in-side half-basinand the exteriorwall should behidden or use-less in that ofS. Ambroise;but that itshould serve toform a series ofdeeply vaulted niches on a rectangular plan which, turning under the cornicevery near one another, should form a coronal frieze of certainand agreeable effect. Each little vault is sustained by small pillars, and has forarchivolt a second little concentric arch, slightly larger, whichprojects the thickness of a brick, and at the place where its jamboccurs generally rests upon a small console jutting from thelittle pilaster which separates them. The niches are, by threeand three, separated by long and thin vertical projections whichsustain the small archivolts to which they correspond, anddescend to the ground, thus cutting the wall into five spaces, inthree of which windows—large, arched, and simple—are extremity of the cornice merely presents a brick tower. Fig. 121.—Details of the Heading of the Apsis and the Presby-teiT in S. Ambi-oise of ^lilan— IXth Century. 240 jutting at the angle between two liorizontal layers of the samenature. This little cornice also crowns the two walls corre-sponding to the arched roof of the choir; but in place of beingsupported b} superadded niches, it is sustained by a series ofsmall bas-relief arches in double rank, each resting on two smallsuperposed consoles, and supported only at the extremity bythin vertical projections. Here, then, is a case of great importance, for this is cer-tainly one of the most ancient monuments preserved, whereinare exhibited several elements truly characteristic of Romanicarchitecture which is posterior to it, and of the ogival st}ie atthe same time. Such are principally the cornices with pensilearches and long vertical projections ; one and the other of theseelements, and
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