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 145
was the only reform possible to them. ■* Enc. Brit., vol. xvi., p. 715. 130 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY As the monastic life formed one of the most interesting andpicturesque features of the general life of the Middle Ages, so themonastery in its full development was one of the most interestingand… … these, the first addition was the modest oratory for the devotions ofthe monks in company. This was commonly a small oblong buildingof the simplest form, quite without architectural character, not infre-quently following the example of the earliest monastic cells andexcavated from the rock.…
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