. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. rcades of six round arches on each side, carried on roundpiers treated as columns, though built in courses, with foliated capitalsof which the abaci are generally octagonal. (Fig. 359.) The arcadeis surmounted by a strongly projecting cornice, which supports anarrow gallery with a low fence divided into square panels piercedwith quatrefoils. Above this is the high undivided clerestory wallwith a single tall pointed window over each arch. The ceilings showthe open framing of the roof, except in the
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. rcades of six round arches on each side, carried on roundpiers treated as columns, though built in courses, with foliated capitalsof which the abaci are generally octagonal. (Fig. 359.) The arcadeis surmounted by a strongly projecting cornice, which supports anarrow gallery with a low fence divided into square panels piercedwith quatrefoils. Above this is the high undivided clerestory wallwith a single tall pointed window over each arch. The ceilings showthe open framing of the roof, except in the square bay of the cross-ing and the square choir, which opens from it, each of which iscovered by a simple four-part vault, that of the crossing springingfrom clustered piers at the angles. The choir has in its east walla tall two-light pointed window, with very poor and thin aisles have each a series of small semicircular apses, used aschapels, placed quite without relation to the columns of the walls and piers are everywhere in equal courses of black andwhite Fig. 357. feiena. Doorway lu ^e\v Portion. 186 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Of the exterior, the facade, begun in 1310, twenty years after thechurch itself was founded, is the only portion which has receivedany special architectural treatment, and no attempt whatever hasbeen made to bring it into harmony with the other parts of thechurch. It is a mere frontispiece, of which the architecture anddecoration are carried around on the flanks about six feet on eitherside, or scarcely more than the thickness of the wall, while its gablessoar far above the roofs behind them. Its architect was LorenzoMaitani, a Sienese of whom little is known beyond his connectionwith this single work.^ The facade is not only inspired by that ofthe cathedral of Siena, but is in form nearly a reproduction of are the same triple-arched and gabled porch, the centre archround, the side arches pointed, the same four b
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