. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. des, 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 space occupied by the recesses below is covered by anarrow aisle, divided by transverse arches into eight groined the upper arcade the plan changes from an octagon to a poly-gon of sixteen sides, the additional sides being supported on smallsquinches between the arches. The latter plan is contin
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. des, 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 space occupied by the recesses below is covered by anarrow aisle, divided by transverse arches into eight groined the upper arcade the plan changes from an octagon to a poly-gon of sixteen sides, the additional sides being supported on smallsquinches between the arches. The latter plan is continued in thedome. Both dome and aisle are, as is general in these buildings,without wooden roofs, but they retain the outward form of such roofs,the masonry being filled in above the dome until it assumes the out-line of a cone, and above the vault of the aisle an inclined planeof masonry being formed, corresponding to a lean-to roof. Thismethod of construction could not, of course, be followed except inbuildings of small size ; at Arsago the clear breadth of the aisle isno more than five i--i- Fig-. lOo. Albenga. Baptistery. 1G4 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY The exterior is simple, the only decorative feature being the small arched corbel - table of
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