The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 123
biaco, S. Elia,Cassino, Soracte. In this general devastation the domus cultce, the colony 112 HIS TORI C A L SKETCH farms established by the Popes, had also disappeared, and allvillages in the plains had been abandoned for new fortifiedtowns on rocky hills. This cut off a large source of revenuefor… … Interior of Basilica of S. Elia, near Nepi.(Tenth century.) fallen in 897 from old age and decay, it was allowed to lie, ashapeless mass of ruins, for seven years, though it was thecathedral church of the Papacy. When Sergius III (904-911)and John X (914-928) began and comjdeted the…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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