The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 176
BASILICAS along the edge and across the base of the gable, of the usual line of cuneiform bricks placed diagonally and by a slight stone cornice. But in the more important churches the entire surface was concealed by a mosaic composition extending from summit to portico, several of which are… … Portico of S. Saba, by Jacobo di Lorenzo. (c. 1200.) of color. Still, toward the close of the Middle Ages more win- dows were sometimes opened in the faqade. At S. Peter in the thirteenth century, beside the wheel-window in the gable, there were two rows of three tall mullioned windows, the lower…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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