The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 41
30 HISTORICAL SKETCH to be supported by single shafts, so the twelve arcades rest ontwenty-foiir coupled shafts, whose capitals are surmounted byan architectural member which is equivalent to an interruptedfrieze from which the arches spring. The whole arrangementis unique, a summary of Roman… … liiteiior (if S. (onstaiitia (S. (.nstanza). vertical thrust of the dome is partly received by the vaultsand walls of the tunnel-vaulted ambulatory. We must imagine this mausoleum also as surrounded by acircular colonnade, of which only traces remain, and as front-ing on a portico. All around it…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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