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 64
and united the two churches by removingboth apses. Finally, about 1216-1227, Honorius III. added thefine entrance porch.^ In its present aspect there is little harmonybetween the two portions of the basilica, but the effect of the interioris one of great picturesqueness. The breadth of the two… … Fig. 25. S. Lorenzo. Section of the Early Church. was, when the two were thrown together, taken for the chancel orpresbytery. But as the floor of the rear church was on a consider-ably lower level than that of the front, it became necessary to raiseit. The level of the chancel was thus made some…
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