Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 170
nt and easier explanation of this innovation. By no means all circular churches were supplied with sideaisles, although this form was preferred. (See 111. 44, 45, 46,and 47.) Similarly, the nave, while usually covered with adome, in certain cases — notably S. Stefano Rotondo at Rome— was merely… … III. 45. — Plan of the Baptistery, S. Giovanni in Laterano.(From De Rossi) Much as the dome was appreciated as an architectural fea-ture, the Early Christians seem to have strongly felt the undesir-ability of a circular ground plan. A plain cylindrical buildingcrowned by a dome is not only normally…
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