The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 221
rude magnificence and pomp. The wild feuds of the tenth century and the absolute neces-sity of a fortified residence for self-protection definitely elimi-nated all remaining traces of the type of the antique house. When the great Alberic gave his house for a monastery,it was probably because he… … Detail of Palace of Crescentius.(Teuth and eleventh centuries.) Otho III built himself such a palace between S. Alessio and S.^Maria Aventina, of which traces still remain. But the onlyconsiderable remnant of this age is the so-called House ofCrescentius, a palace built by a noble named Nicholas…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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