HISTORY OF AKCHITECTUIvE.

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of the I I til cciuui-y ; -iftcr wliicli, as we sliall presently see, a new and extraordinary stvle
made its appearance in Knro])e, a style whereof
^y.
151. will, on inspection, sutHcitntly
(^ive a general notion to the reader.
291. Before leaving the subject of this section, we must fall back again upon Italy
to notice two or three works intimately connected witli this period of the art. We
here more particularly allude to the celebrated baptistry and campanile of I'isa, a city
which seems to have been a great nursing mother to our art, no less than to those of
painting and sculjiture. The Campo Santo of that city, of wliich, from the number of
examples to be noticed, we regret we shall be imable to give but a short account, belongs
to the next period, and must be noticed after them.
292. Dioti Salvi, whose birthplace even is unknown,
commenced, in 1 152, the baptistery
.jf J.'isii
(Jiff.
152.), and after eight years completed it It is close to tlie cathedral of the
place, and though on the wall of
the inner gallery there be an in-
scrijition, cut in the character of the
middle ages,
"
a.d. 1278, ^KniricATA
KiiiT OK NOVO," and it may be con-
sistent with truth that the edi-
fice was ornamented by John of
Pisa, there is nothing to invalidate
the belief that the building stands
on the foundations originally set
out, and that for its principal fea-
tures it is indebted to the architect
whose name we have mentioned.
It is 100 ft. in diannter within the
walls, which are 8 ft. G in. thick.
The covering is a double brick
(!onie, the inner one conical, the
outer hemispherical. The former
is a frustum of a jiyramid of
twelve sides. Its upper extremity
forms a horizontal polygon, finished
with a small parabolic cupola,
showing twelve small marble ribs
on the exterior. The outer vault
terminates above, at the base of
the small cupola, which stands like
a lantern over the a))crtiirc. From
the pavement, the height of the
cupola is 102 ft. The entrance is
by a decorated doorway, from the
'
sill of which the general pavement
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the space between the steps and the wall having been provided for the accommodation
of the persons assembled to view the cerem,>ny of baptism. An aisle or corridor is con-
tinued round its interior circumference, being formed by eight granite columns and four piers,
from which are turned semicircular arches, which support an upper gallery
;
and above
Uic arches arc twelve piers, bearing the semicircular arches which
sui>port the j.yramidal