The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 175
broken by as many doors as there were aisles to the church,normally three, sometimes five. In the minor basilicas therewas but a single door, and in exceptional cases, as at S. Peters,there was a supplementary door for special occasions. These doors were flat-topped, their architraves and jambs … Monastic Church of SS. Viucenzo ed Aiiastasio.(c. 1140 and seventh century.) being carved in the early Middle Ages, and decorated withmosaics after the twelfth centuiy, though the richest doorsare those made up of antique carved fragments. Among re-mainiug doors the earliest examples are those of…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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