. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . transepts: externally these cupolas arearcaded all round under the eaves, and roofed with flat-pitched roofs, and are far from being graceful; open arcadesare introduced under the eaves and up the gables, andeverywhere there is a profusion of carving. It is likelyenough that this Lombard-Eomanesque style, as we see it atPavia and elsewhere, did, as has been supposed, set theexample which was very soon after followed in the greatchurches at Koln and elsewhere along the borders of theRhine. In size, however, the childr
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . transepts: externally these cupolas arearcaded all round under the eaves, and roofed with flat-pitched roofs, and are far from being graceful; open arcadesare introduced under the eaves and up the gables, andeverywhere there is a profusion of carving. It is likelyenough that this Lombard-Eomanesque style, as we see it atPavia and elsewhere, did, as has been supposed, set theexample which was very soon after followed in the greatchurches at Koln and elsewhere along the borders of theRhine. In size, however, the children far exceeded theirparents, for San Michele is not remarkable for its dimen-sions, except in the width of the transept. The church consists of a nave and aisles of four bays, atransept of great length, a central lantern, and a shortchoir with circular eastern apse ; small apses are also builtin the east walls of the transepts. A fine crypt is formedunder the whole of the eastern arm of the cross, and is enteredby steps on each side of the thirteen steps which lead up to. 4-^. CRf[ }i\cnzhz, PRvm p. 276.
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