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chap. iii
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
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modes which for incongruity surpass anything that imperial Roman taste had devised.
![Section of vault of the Pazzi chapel, figure 11 from "Character of Renaissance Architecture"](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Section_of_vault_of_the_Pazzi_chapel_%28Character_of_Renaissance_Architecture%29.png/400px-Section_of_vault_of_the_Pazzi_chapel_%28Character_of_Renaissance_Architecture%29.png)
Fig. 11.—Section of vault of the Pazzi chapel.
The first of these works is the small chapel of the Pazzi in the cloister of Santa Croce. It is a simple rectangle on plan (Fig. 10), with a square sanctuary on the short axis, and a porch across the front. The central area is covered with a circular vault which by most writers is called a dome, but it is not a dome; it is a vault of essentially Gothic form, like two early Gothic apse vaults joined together (Fig. 11). It rests on pendentives, and is enclosed by a cylindrical drum, which forms