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 35
ons of the past half century. The mostimportant of these are two chapels over the cemetery of Calixtus, alittle to the west of the Via Appia, discovered by Marchi about 1845,and of which the plans are given in Fig. 8. The plan of the twobuildings, which are about two hundred and forty feet apart,… … Fv^. 7. IntHpior of the Apostolic Crypt. covered by homis})heric vaults of brickwork. The naves had i)rob-ably wooden roofs. In one chapel, the strong buttresses at the junc-tion of the a})ses and a portion of a similar buttress at the junctionof one apse with the nave wall suggest that the central…
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