Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Scale. Fig. 59- The Atrium Archbishop Anspertus had built an atrium, as hisepitaph declares: QVOT SACRAS AEDES QVANTO SVDORE REFECITATRIA VICINAS STRUXIT ET ANTE FORES which apparently means that he built the atrium in frontof the neighbouring doors of the church. But the styleof the existing atrium (Plate LXXV) is inconsistent withthe date of Anspertus who died in 882, and it was re-builtprobably late in the iith century. Finally the secondcampanile, that of the Canons, was erected between 1128 Plate LXXV. S. AMBROGIO—MILAN. The Atrium nave CH. xvii] MI
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Scale. Fig. 59- The Atrium Archbishop Anspertus had built an atrium, as hisepitaph declares: QVOT SACRAS AEDES QVANTO SVDORE REFECITATRIA VICINAS STRUXIT ET ANTE FORES which apparently means that he built the atrium in frontof the neighbouring doors of the church. But the styleof the existing atrium (Plate LXXV) is inconsistent withthe date of Anspertus who died in 882, and it was re-builtprobably late in the iith century. Finally the secondcampanile, that of the Canons, was erected between 1128 Plate LXXV. S. AMBROGIO—MILAN. The Atrium nave CH. xvii] MILAN 263 and 1144^ The church has been a pfood deal meddled s. Am- . brogio With by modern restorers, but it remains perhaps theearliest example of a completely vaulted church in Italy. The Eastern apse has the side walls prolonged to form Thea bay in advance of the nave, cross vaulted in the aisles, ^^^^^barrel vaulted in the choir, the object being to give morespace for the monks who were established there in the8th century, and for whom we suppose the rebuilding ofthis part took place. The body of the church consists of Thefour square bays in the nave and eight in each aisle, thenave bays being articulated by massive clustered piers,with lesser piers between them corresponding to thebays in the aisles (Plate LXXVI). Over the aisles is aspacious triforium with two arches in each bay of the naveover the two of the arcade below, and it is vaulted. Asingle wide roof covers both nave and aisles so that thereis no clerestory. The three we
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