Mediæval art, from the peace of the church to the eve of the renaissance, 312-1350 (1904)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Duckworth and co.: New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 59
rs from 326. They have suffered so much fromviolence and change that little of the original work 26 THE HOLY SEPULCHRE remains. The rock sepulchre, however, is still partlysurrounded by an arcade and a wall which every one admitsrepresents the Constantinian work, and this stands to thewest of more… … Fig. 12. Suggested plan of the Churches of the Holy Sepulchre,Jerusalem, as built by Constantine. the intention was to give something of the cross form tothese circular buildings. Compare the cruciform nimbusof Fig. I. Eusebius says that Constantine (i) decoratedthe Holy Tomb as the head of all,…
Art, Medieval
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