The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 37
by their marks and inscriptions to havecome from many quarries, and to have belonged to buildingserected by various Emperors from Titus to Gallienus. The columns of the main nave supported not arcades butarchitraves, and the side-aisles were of diminishing widths.These architraves were not uniform… … Phiu of S. Petfi- in the ^Middle Ages. THE CITY OF CON ST AN TINE AND HONORIUS 27 Here stood the confession and altar, above the tomb of S.Peter, and in front of it a double line of twelve superb spiralcolumns, supporting architraves with sculptures. In the apse was a mosaic of Christ and the two…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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