Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (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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e central dome, the only one visible, shows anoctagonal drum pierced by single round-arched win- ™ ^». T dows, and covered by a hisfh octagonal roof. The Fig. 251. Imiuac- j » o ulati. Trani. other two are lower, and show only the octagonal 1 Mothes, p. 611, presumes all the domes except the central one to belong to therebuilding of 1100. jxist as he presumes the eastern and western domes of Molfetta tobelong to the rebuilding of 1035. Both presumptions are purely conjectural, and seemto me improbable, as the Byzantine impulse from which the domes arose was muchstronger u\ South Italy during the ninth than during the eleventh century. ■^ ISchulz, i., p. 55, pi. 5 ; Mothes, p. 311). m B LJ V ( j ^ LJ B ■ ^/ 0 ^ i 1 r ♦ ♦ ■ .:...-■-.^■^^. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 21 roofs above the nave roof, which was originally crossed in the centreby the roof of the northern and southern bays adjacent to the cen-tre ; the roofs of the four bays at the angles being- lower, so that the
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Fig. 252. Stilo. La Cattolica. external aspect of the building was that of a Greek cross with a highdome at the intersection of the arms.^ But perhaps the most thoroughly Byzantine building in SouthItaly is the little church at Stilo called La Cattolica. (Fig. gtijo252.) It is a square of about twenty-five feet built on a CattoUca.rocky height, and going back to 820. Four columns without bases,and with rude block capitals, form a square in the centre, and sup-1 Schulz, i., p. 130; Mothes, pp. 340-392. 22 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY port twelve arches which divide the interior into nine bays about fivefeet square, of which the middle one is covered by a hemisphericaldome on a high cylindrical drum, and covered in its turn by a tiledroof, low and conical. The four bays at the corners are covered bysimilar but lower domes ; the interior bays by barrel vaults whoseaxes radiate from the centre of the church, and which thus buttressthe central dome. Three apses project from the three eastern bays

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