. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 105. Biella. Baptistery. Biella. pilaster strips into bays correspoiuling with the interior arches, andwithout windows. The upper wall has in each face a small triplewindow, divided by mid-wall shafts. Both portions of the wall ter-minate in a small arched corbel-table and a light moulded cornice. Two small baptisteries, at Biella, a little to the west of Xovara,and Galliano, a little to the southeast of Como, recall bytheir plan some of the later sepulchral chapels of the cata-combs of Rome.
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 105. Biella. Baptistery. Biella. pilaster strips into bays correspoiuling with the interior arches, andwithout windows. The upper wall has in each face a small triplewindow, divided by mid-wall shafts. Both portions of the wall ter-minate in a small arched corbel-table and a light moulded cornice. Two small baptisteries, at Biella, a little to the west of Xovara,and Galliano, a little to the southeast of Como, recall bytheir plan some of the later sepulchral chapels of the cata-combs of Rome. The two are very similar in ground plan, eachconsisting of a central square of about sixteen feet, bounded by fourround arches, from which open four semicircular apses covered byhemispherical vaults. At Biella the wall is carried up still on asquare plan, but with the angles slightly rounded, as if the buildershad wished to prepare for a hemispherical or octagonal dome, butwere without the knowledge of pendentives or squinches. The dome,therefore, remains nearly a square in plan at the base,
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