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 39
ns of the past half century. The mostimportant of these are two chapels over the cemetery of Calixtus, alittle to the Mest 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,… … Fig. 7. Interior of the Apostolic Crypt. covered by hemispheric vaults of brickwork. The naves had prob-al>ly wooden roofs. In one chapel, the strong buttresses at the junc-tion of tlie apses and a portion of a similar buttress at the junctionof one apse with the nave wall suggest that the…
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