The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 181
ture: an enclosing rail, about the width of the central nave and of considerably greater length ; within it the choir-seats, the ambones or pulpits and the paschal candlestick ; at its further end the altar, often at the top of a low line of steps, with its confession, its canopy or ciboriurn and… … Interior of S. Maria Maggiore. (Fourth and fifth centuries, with Renaissance ceiling.) column. The shafts were monoliths, of course ; not constructed in courses, as had been the Greek custom and as was to be the mediseval custom in other schools. The aisles were so much lower and narrower than the…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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