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 61
erior dimensions to those already men- St. Agnes. . . , , c ^ • t tioned, but has some features oi great interest. It wasdirectly connected with the extensive catacombs of St. Agnes, and its floor was on the level of their first gallery,some 25 feet below the surface of the ground,from which it was… … and the side aisles are single, — unlike thegreat basilicas wliich preceded it. The nave,about 33 feet broad, is separated from theside aisles by arcades of eight round archesspringing from columns taken from olderbuildings. The colunnis are of various sizes,with capitals and bases of various…
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