Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. rHK CKNlUAL liOMANKSC^lK 2U1 The reinaimlur of tliis int(;nHting cliMrch is less coiiHistent withtlio fnrado th:iii is I lie case witli San Micihele. Ill* nstoration of1,U)8-1I520, wliich added greatly to the beauty of tlie chiircli, wasinspired by (;uite othta* mochds than those of tlie Pisan Konianescjue.Tlie (iothie, botli of I^ranee and of (Jerniany, was niakinj; itself feltin Italy, and the interior of San Maitino, as well as the <^reater partof its flanks, is to a eonsiderablc extent transformed in aecordaneewith (iothie forms. The interior in particular, with its high andnarrow vaulted nave (but in scpiare bays), its compound j)iers, itsnoble triforium, with two groups of traceried arches in each bay, andits double transept, has a distinctly Gothic effect. The arcades ofnave and triforium are carried across t\u) transept, as at Pisa. Butin the east end of the church the Pisan architecture reappears in itspurity. The high blind arcade, with its slender engaged shafts rising
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Fig-. 226. Liicca. Cathedral. 298 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY from a continuous base, its bands and alternate voussoirs of darkmarble, and its lozenges under the arch-heads, is carried through thewhole breadth, including the apse, where three alternate arches arefilled each by a fine window, with two orders of jamb-shafts and archmouldings. The second arcade becomes on the apse a free galler),while on the flat wall the arches, four on each side, are divided byan engaged pilaster into groups of two arches each, separated by aslender column standing just detached from the wall; an unusualarrangement which gives variety to. the composition while not detract-ing from its unity,lu the half gables ofthe aisle roofs, thesame division of thewall is maintained byengaged shafts with-out arches rising fromthe string coursewhich continues theaisle cornice to thesloping decorated

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