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 29
n the Catacombs -were intended chiefly for the performanceof the burial service, or for families of pilgrims to pray at the shrines of the martyrs, ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY first little or no architectural character, — the roof was usuallyvaulted with brickwork, and the entrance doorways from the… … Fig. 1. Part of the Catacomb of St. Agnes. early as the second century it was common to decorate the walls andvaults with frescoes.^ One of the most complete and beautiful of seems evident from their size, as none of them could contain more than fifty persons, andat the time they were cltiefly…
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