The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 189
er columns upheld fourarchitraves. The simplest form appears at S. Gregorio inRome ; the next stage at the Benedictine church of Xepi, bothearlier than 1100 and with a gable roof. The type of theearly twelfth century, with retreating stories and pyramidabove the lower architrave, was crystallized… … Ciborium of High Altar, CathedralFereutino, by Driido. BASILICAS 179 the white marble except an occasional cross or simple band;but the ornamentation was constantly on the increase, until inthe thirteenth century it blossomed into such superb worksas the ciboria at Anagni by the Cosmati and that of…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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