Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 133
adwindows, which pierced the wall above the support-ing arcade or architrave, while the side aisles wereillumined by windows in the outer wall. The en-trance was at the end opposite the apsis, and therewas generally one doorway for each aisle ; but inlarge basilicas, where the nave was very broad,… … Baldachin. Early Christian Art. 119 rior. Sometimes it had only a simple portico, butusually a quadrangular court, inclosed by a colon-nade, extended its entire length. This court wascalled the atrium or quadriporticus, and in thecentre arose a cantharus or fountain. The quadri-porticus seems to…
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