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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 31

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rom tlie analogy of the Pagan buildings above cited, to datefrom the latter half of the second century. One of the most interesting of the structures in the catacombsdevoted to the purposes of Christian worship consists of aseries of square cubieula (Figs. 2 and 3), arranged on bothchurches, sides… … Fi<r. •]. Section of Ciibiculii luiininsr Church. discovered by Father Marchi in 1841 in the catacombs of St. Agnes,near the church of S. Agnese fuori le inura. On one side of thecorridor, which is lighted by a luminarium, K, are three, and on theop])osite side two chambers about seven feet…

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