. Una storia di architettura in Italia da tempi di Costantino agli albori del rinascimento. Un non è facilmente comprensibile, ma è possibile che il transeptmay hanno stato ampliato verso est al tempo quando il choirwas prolungata. La sua peculiare dei risultati del piano in una serie di triangularand alloggiamenti di forma trapezoidale sotto le cui volte sono estremamente scomode andunmanageable. Il coro che forse consisteva originariamente di solo due oblongbays affiancata da due cappelle quadrate su ciascun lato, era prolongedearly nel XIV secolo come parte di un progetto per la buildingof un battistero ai piedi della rupe whi

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. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. an is not easily understood, but it is possible that the transeptmay have been broadened eastward at the time when the choirwas prolonged. Its peculiar plan results in a series of triangularand trapezoidal bays whose vaults are extremely awkward andunmanageable. The choir, which perhaps consisted originally of only two oblongbays flanked by two square chapels on each side, was prolongedearly in the fourteenth century as part of a project for the buildingof a baptistery at the foot of the cliff which bounded the plateau onwhich the cathedral had been built. The addition of two bays tothe choir would carry it over the proposed baptistery, of the front ofwhich the east end of the cathedral would thus be a crowning stage.The project met with much opposition, — which was strengthened bythe judgment of five experts, chief among whom was LorenzoMaitani, the architect of the cathedral of Orvieto then building, tothe effect that the proposed lengthening of the church would not THE GOTHIC 179. Fig. 354. Siena. Interior of Cathedral. only injure its architectural effect, but would endanger its stability.Th people, however, unwilling to abandon so alluring a project, anddistrusting, perhaps wisely, the judgment of the experts, referred thedecision of the question first to a meeting of seventy-five of thebest and wisest men of the city, and next to the General Council of 180 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY citizens, who by a vote of one hundred and forty-nine to seventy-three declared that the work should be proceeded with.^ The choirwas thus made to consist of four central oblong bays, flanked oneach side by an aisle of four square bays, the arrangement beingprecisely a continuation of that of the nave. The east end is square, with a flat segmental niche in the centre, and over it a large circularwindow. The church is built of rich materials; the walls and piers areeverywhere of marble, and

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