Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 68
ter of the columns as supports led to a diminu-tion of the thickness of the wall quite at variance with its height,and the preservation, through so many centuries, of such carelesslybuilt masonry of tufa and brick is due rather to the extraordinaryexcellence of the Roman mortar than to any wisdom… … Fig. 17.—View of the Interior of S. Agnese near Rome. wall. This was at first known as the triumphal arch. It had be-come necessary by the introduction of an apse of semicircular plan,terminated above by a half dome, an extension of the nave whichhad found its prototypes not only in the antique…
Art, Medieval
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