. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )ringing from stilt-blocks, but with two surroundingaisles, instead of the one which now remains, which is about seventeen. Fig. Klevation and S«ctioii of Mauso-leum of Theodoric. ( IIIMsriAN AKCIllTKCTi:iiK 79 ftot wide. Tlui central arcadtsupports a chirostory wall picrcrd plain roiiiid-arehcd windows and (covered with a low coni(,altind)er-rool. The <^reater part ot the outer aisle has disappean;d, andthe twenty-eight eohnnns which separated it from the inner aisle have
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )ringing from stilt-blocks, but with two surroundingaisles, instead of the one which now remains, which is about seventeen. Fig. Klevation and S«ctioii of Mauso-leum of Theodoric. ( IIIMsriAN AKCIllTKCTi:iiK 79 ftot wide. Tlui central arcadtsupports a chirostory wall picrcrd plain roiiiid-arehcd windows and (covered with a low coni(,altind)er-rool. The <^reater part ot the outer aisle has disappean;d, andthe twenty-eight eohnnns which separated it from the inner aisle havebeen joined by a sixteen-sided ])olyi;-onMl wall, froyi whi<*h transverselialf arches in tlu; form of ilying buttresses spring to the wall of theclerestory, — doubtless a later addition for th(i purpose of strength-ening that somewhat slender wall. At the north, south, and westsides of the })olygon, three wings with radiating walls projectedlike the arms of a Greek cross, the fourth side being occupied l)yan apse of larger si/.c, in the form of a semicircle with i)rolongedsides, the exterior being polygonal. By these i)rojections the outeraisle was divided into four separated sections, of which everythingbey
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