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 50
ce. But the church hasalways retained it.s position and rank as tlie first church in rhri.stendom. Orbis et UrbisOmnium Ecclesiarum Mater et (\ii)ut. — the ehapt«r of the Lateran still taking preced-ence of th;it of St. Peters. It w.as origin;illy dedicated to (hristus S.ilvat<»r. ])ut wasknown… … Fie-. 18. Basilica of St. Peter. 24 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY Vatican, in whidi many Popes had been buried in the first and second^^ centuries,^ was probably the largest of the early churches, Vatican coverino an area of soniethin- over 7000 square metres(73,000 sq. ft.). (Fig. 18.) It was a…
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