. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. he transept from eastto west, and is not centred upon the axis of the transept, — perhapsthe only instance of such an arrangement. The aisles are groinedin square bays, not much below the nave vault, and a low clerestory intervenes. As inthe last-mentionedexample,there areno galleries, andthe continuouslines of high andnarrow arches bywhich the naveis enclosed are instrong contrast tothe broad and lowarcades of SanAmbrogio and ofSan Michele. Thesuccession of aislebays is not inter-rupted by thetra
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. he transept from eastto west, and is not centred upon the axis of the transept, — perhapsthe only instance of such an arrangement. The aisles are groinedin square bays, not much below the nave vault, and a low clerestory intervenes. As inthe last-mentionedexample,there areno galleries, andthe continuouslines of high andnarrow arches bywhich the naveis enclosed are instrong contrast tothe broad and lowarcades of SanAmbrogio and ofSan Michele. Thesuccession of aislebays is not inter-rupted by thetransept, but iscontinued throughthe whole lengthof the church, and the same division into square bays is repeated inthe arms which project beyond the aisle walls. A small aj)se projectsfrom the middle bay of each of the transept ends.^ The cathedral of Parma, the largest of all the purely LombardParma churches, is supposed to have been founded as early as theCathedral, ^j^j ^^f ^\^q sixth ccuturv, being thus nearly contemporarywith the cathedral of Piacenza, but it was nearly destroyed by the. izoFttt Fit Section, S. Antonino. ^ Tliis is perliaps tlu erirliest of tlu Lombard churches in which the principal door-ways are covered by projectin<f porches. These porches become later one of the mostHtrikinj; and characteristic features of the style. At Piacenza they cover the tlnee portalsof the fa^-ade, and their projection is .slifjlit ; — but in later examples their projection wasoften as great aa their widtli, and tlie porch was often repeated in a second story. TilK ) lU)MANJi 1117, and was rtbiiilt during tliu latter liiilf of thatcentury. It is a criicitoriu churcli, with an ()ctaf^(>ual pointed domect)verin«5 the crossing, and with the choir and transepts consisting;each of a single scpiare groined bay with a small circndar a])se. Anadditional a})sc o})ens from the east wall of each transept. The floorof this part of the church is raised far above the nave on
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