. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig-. 91. Verona, S. Zeno. 148 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY. iMi \ eroiia. Interior of IS. Zeuo. clerestory, clisa})})earing within the boarded ceiling.^ The arrange-ment has no rehition whatever to the actual ceiling, but is exactlywhat we should haye expected to find if the nave had been coveredby groined vaulting, and the vaults had been separated by transversearches thrown across the nave. Furthermore, the shaft is interruptedat mid-height by a capital in ])reparation for the arch. The aislesare divi
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig-. 91. Verona, S. Zeno. 148 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY. iMi \ eroiia. Interior of IS. Zeuo. clerestory, clisa})})earing within the boarded ceiling.^ The arrange-ment has no rehition whatever to the actual ceiling, but is exactlywhat we should haye expected to find if the nave had been coveredby groined vaulting, and the vaults had been separated by transversearches thrown across the nave. Furthermore, the shaft is interruptedat mid-height by a capital in ])reparation for the arch. The aislesare divided by transverse round arches opposite the great piers. Theinterior walls are of red brick with frequent courses of stone, andwere, as well as the piers, extensively painted with figure subjects,of which traces yet remain, particularly in the apse and easternportion of the choir, where the decoration was naturally most elabo-rate and has been most carefully preserved and renewed. The choiris brought forward so as to occupy the two eastern bays of the nave,its floor beini; raised some seven or eie:ht feet above the nave floorover a noble crypt,
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