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A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)

Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 107

An illustration from A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance, 1901, leaf 107 — cultivated, but also in Italy,the circular buildings of this date and earlier were almost invariablyroofed with a central dome. In the present instance even thewooden roof of the central space proved too serious a ])ioblem for thebuilders, for at some date not now determinable a wall was… … Fig. .54. S. hjtefano Rotondo. ^ Yet a lialf century later, under Pope.Tolin I. and liis successor Felix, the church wasadorm-d witli mosaics and rit-h marbles, and was said to have been one of the most splen-did churolus in Home. KAULY CliinsriAN AUCIIIlKCTrUK Hi Anj:^cH at Itiugia, and their usu…

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