The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 192
ame the decorative centre of BASILICAS 181 this face which oftea extend-ed downward toward the confes-sion or merely broke the line of steps leading to the apse. Inthe later Koman school the altar, which had earlier been a plainstructure hung with woven frontals or ante-pendia of goldor silver… … Ciboiiuiu of High Altar at S. Elia, near Nepi. (Tenth or eleventh century.) The single termination was the rule until the eighth century,when the sacristies on either side were first changed into sideapses. The earliest triple apse recorded is that of S. Mariain Cosmedin, probably due to Hadrian I…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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