 The walls throughout, from the entrance to the apse, are covered with precious marbles, ananged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is divided longitudinally into three compartments, which prevents the awkwardness that is usually observed...  Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Italy - Page 23by George Bradshaw - 1865Full view - About this book
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1862 - 566 pages
...The walls throughout, from Ihe entrance to the apse, are covered with precious marbles, arranged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is...vaults. The one defect that strikes the eye is that the hollow lines of the Corinthian capitals are too weak to support the pier-arches, though this criticism... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1862 - 566 pages
...The walls throughout, from the entrance to the apse, are covered with precious marbles, arranged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is...semicircular vault. Here it is done as artistically as it conld be done in the best Gothic vaults. The one defect that strikes the eye is that the hollow lines... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...vault, divided longitudinally into three compartments, thus admitting the insertion of the windows ' as artistically as it could be done in the best Gothic ' vaults' (p. 80.). It may well be regretted that for the architects of St. Peter's at Rome such truthfulness... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1873 - 616 pages
...precious marbles, arranged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is divided transversely into three compartments, which prevents the awkwardness...vaults. The one defect that strikes the eye is that the hollow lines of the Corinthian capitals are too weak to support the pier-arches, though this criticism... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1873 - 622 pages
...precious marbles, arranged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is divided transversely into three compartments, which prevents the awkwardness...vaults. The one defect that strikes the eye is that the hollow lines of the Corinthian capitals are too weak to support the pier-arches, though this criticism... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Art museums - 1876 - 448 pages
...The walls throughout, from the entrance to the apse, are covered with precious marbles, auanged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is...vaults. The one defect that strikes the eye is that the hollow lines of the Corinthian capitals are too weak to support the pier-arches, though this criticism... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Cities and towns - 1884 - 396 pages
...The walls throughout, from the entrance to the apse, are covered with precious marbles, arranged in patterns of great beauty. The roof of the nave is...longitudinally into three compartments, which prevents the awkwardne-s that is usually observed where windows of a semicircular form cut into a semicircular vault.... | |
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