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The Crypt of the Seventy Pillars: Volumetric Proportions and Structural Ratios in the Benedictine Abbey of Nonantola Modena

The Crypt of the Seventy Pillars: Volumetric Proportions and Structural Ratios in the Benedictine Abbey of Nonantola Beneath the brick basilica of San Silvestro at Nonantola, ten kilometres north of Modena, a crypt of exceptional lateral extent occupies the full width of the raised presbytery above: sixty-four slender colonnettes rising […]

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