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 149
right-hand aislethe Latin rite was celebrated, in the left-hand,the Greek. This chapel, like many of its class,was the centre of a little community of monkswho dwelt in cells excavated in the rock inthe immediate neighborhood of the chapel,^having neither the organization nor the per-manence of the… … iSJisi— Fig. 324. CappueinoVecchio. tions retained the to their Eastern prototypes, of laura, and they were sometimes attached to the greater monasteries.^ As the buildings of the monastery grew in importance they weresurrounded, as an obvious precaution against the dangers of hostileattack to…
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