. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )osition. As a rule their ])lan is octagonal, where in the earlier cen-turies it liad been ciicnlar : but this rule was in neitlier age inHexil) ba])tistery attached to the cathedral of Novara (see Fig. 69,. Fig. 102. Apse of ilS. Tommaso in Limine. rill-: ) ii()MAM:s(^i:K 163 Arsago. |). 1 1.)), wiiicli is mul()iil)tt(lly, :it least in its lower portion, as old as117, Iurnishod tho iiuxlel which was iollowed all but exactly three orIoiir centuries later in the l)ai)tistery of All
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )osition. As a rule their ])lan is octagonal, where in the earlier cen-turies it liad been ciicnlar : but this rule was in neitlier age inHexil) ba])tistery attached to the cathedral of Novara (see Fig. 69,. Fig. 102. Apse of ilS. Tommaso in Limine. rill-: ) ii()MAM:s(^i:K 163 Arsago. |). 1 1.)), wiiicli is mul()iil)tt(lly, :it least in its lower portion, as old as117, Iurnishod tho iiuxlel which was iollowed all but exactly three orIoiir centuries later in the l)ai)tistery of All)en;;a (Iig. 10)5), a littletown on tlui coast, half way hetween Nice and (ienoa, (ixccpt that thedome, instead ol followin*;* in its plan the octagon helow, l)e(;onies atrue heniis})here, small corbels in the angles ot the wall HU})plyingthe place of pcndentives. At Arsago, some thirty milesnorthwest of Milan, the bai)tistery, dating from about 8G4,or very nearly contemj)orary with the last named, has a plan verysimilar to it, — an octagon twenty-three feet in diameter, with deeprecesses opening from the sides, very irregular in form, of which allare rectangular in plan except one, which is semicircular, and is usedas an apse. In this case, however, the arcade is repeated in a secondstage, and the sp
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