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 63
astasis are opened, and fromthat hour to daybreak hymnsand antiphons are sung.*** A great number of templeswere transformed into churches.The Parthenon itself becamea church and at Baalbec a finebasilica was built in thecourtyard of the temple. ThePantheon was consecrated in the seventh… … Fig. 15. Roman temples alteredinto the church of SS. Cosmo andDamian in the sixth century. OF TEMPLES 31 drawing by Conero in the Soane Museum best preservesthe form of the church. A door was cut between theround and oblong temples, and the latter was sub-dividedby a wall bent into an apse which…
Art, Medieval
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