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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es of the north. See Revoil.Arch, linmane (lit Midi de la France. •^ In the apse of S. Ambrogio, at Milan, probably tlie oldest portion of the existingchurch, and antedating by perhaps two centuries that of S. Michele at Pavia, we may seewliat is perhajjs the first step towards the use of the eaves gallery in such a position.(See Dart. pi. ol, and Cattaneo, p. 2L().) It was expedient to lighten the nuuss of masonrybetween the outer wall and the inner surface of the vault of the apse, and this was donebv constructing a series niches, stjuare in jdan and covered each by a round arch.These niches are in groups of three, separated by tlie long pilaster strips which rise fromprotmd to cornice, and divide the surface of the apse into five compartments, in three ofwhich are large simple round-arclied windows. A similar arrangement is seen in thecentral apse of the little churcli of S. liabila at Milan, where the arches are in groups of TIIK l.().MI>AKI) Ko.MANKSC^LE 129
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Fig. 80. S. x\mbrogio, Milan ; Lanteru and Towers. The octagonal lantern which marks the dome is also embellishedboth in San Michele and in San Ambrogio by arcaded galleries ofsimilar construction to those of the eaves. In the latter churchthere are two stories of galleries, the lower smaller, and divided on four, quite disconnected, and the wall slopes backward from the foot of the arch to itshead. Here also the groups are separated by strong square buttresses rising from theground to the cornice of the apse ; also in S. Celso, where the arches are in groups ofthree. This division of the apse into vertical compartments by means of pilaster strips or en-gaged shafts is as characteristic of the Lombard work as the similar division of the westfront, and survived far into the later days when the Lombard style had undergone veryessential modifications. 130 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY each face of the octagon into two groups of arches, — the upper witha continuous arcade of five arches on the

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