History of mediæval art . :._. _ J^iL »„rx .::,..w^..-i~r • •~,f ~ m ?Ml - Fig. 195.—Longitudinal Section of the Cathedral of Pisa. Italy, had experienced great difficulty with unstable foundations, agreat number of their buildings settling irregularly. These disad-vantages were particularly felt in Pisa, where the swampy soil, ex-posed to volcanic disturbances, occasioned most serious displace-ments, requiring many adjustments and anchorings to be madeduring the course of the construction. After the warnings re-ceived during the erection of the Cathedral and Baptistery, in whichalmost all the
History of mediæval art . :._. _ J^iL »„rx .::,..w^..-i~r • •~,f ~ m ?Ml - Fig. 195.—Longitudinal Section of the Cathedral of Pisa. Italy, had experienced great difficulty with unstable foundations, agreat number of their buildings settling irregularly. These disad-vantages were particularly felt in Pisa, where the swampy soil, ex-posed to volcanic disturbances, occasioned most serious displace-ments, requiring many adjustments and anchorings to be madeduring the course of the construction. After the warnings re-ceived during the erection of the Cathedral and Baptistery, in whichalmost all the lines have deviated from the vertical and horizon-tal, it was necessary for the architect of the Campanile, begun in1174, to oe particularly careful in this respect. But neither pil-ings, deep foundations, nor the exceptional thickness of the cylin-drical walls of the tower could avoid the disturbances resulting 328 ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. from the movement of the earth, and in each of the lower sto
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