The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 177
eighth century, the apse was flanked by two apses oppo-site the aisles (S. jNIaria in Cosmedin). They seem to have been a develop-ment out of thesacristies thatoften stood here,but it never be-came as popularin Eome as else-where. 80 much for theplan. The eleva-tion was quite assimple. The… … Main D ral, Ci\ ii;i Castellana. headed windows forming a plain clerestory,gave any horizontal play of light and shade. It was only very exceptionally, as at S. ^Nlarco and S.Lorenzo, that the high choir, which became so common in thenorth during the Carlovingian era, was adopted in Romanchurches.…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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