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 69
red and saw carried out the deliberate destruction of allthe churches of Jerusalem. Thus the Crusaders, at the end of the eleventh century,found little of the ancient work of the Christian builders. But what the Persians andMussulmans left, the Crusaders themselves abolished in their rage for new… … taken away were set at tlie east end of the church, and made thechief feature of a narthex or porch. The clerestory wall was pierced with round-arched windowsby Gregory III. in 732;the ajise was rebuilt byPaschal I. in 818. Themosaic pavement was laidtowards the end of the thir-teenth century at…
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