. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. y of colored marbles, while thestring-courses which separate the stories and the cornice mouldingare enriched with sculpture in low relief. With this beautiful fa(;ade the remainder of the exterior is, as Ihave said, in perfect accord. The high blind arcade of the firststory is continued quite around the church, except that on the sideapses it is a little lower than elsewhere, a series of square panels beingintroduced above the arches. The second arcade of the front isrepresented on the flanks and
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. y of colored marbles, while thestring-courses which separate the stories and the cornice mouldingare enriched with sculpture in low relief. With this beautiful fa(;ade the remainder of the exterior is, as Ihave said, in perfect accord. The high blind arcade of the firststory is continued quite around the church, except that on the sideapses it is a little lower than elsewhere, a series of square panels beingintroduced above the arches. The second arcade of the front isrepresented on the flanks and on the east end by an order of thinpilasters, with a window in every alternate interval, but on the greateastern apse and on the apse of the south transept the arcade ofthe facade reappears as an open gallery, with a second gallery abovewithout arches. On the high clerestory and on the gable ends ofchoir and transepts the fourth arcade of the facade is elliptical dome rests on a low octagonal drum, of which eachvisible face has a broad round arch springing from angle Fig. 215. Pisa. Cathedral and Campanile. 280 ARCHITECTURE IN TIALY The roofs of the nave and choir abut against and nearly smother thedrum, leaving free only the faces towards the transepts, whose roofsare considerably lower than that of the nave. This arrangementproduces the one serious defect in this beautiful and nobly consistentdesign. Above the drum the base of the dome is encircled by a thinfringe of cusj)ed and gabled arches with j)innacles between. This isan addition of the thirteenth century, somewhat out of keei)ing withthe seriousness of the general decoration. The refinement and elegance wliich are the chief characteristics ofthis church are heightened by the material of which it is built. Thewalls are faced without and within with white marble, of which thebrilliancy is softened by occasional thin courses of dark gray nnist have been one of the earliest instances
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