The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 170
just a plain wall. At S. Prassede it ushers into along vaulted passage through the monastic buildings. It hadeven, as at S. Peter, been sometimes attached to the atriumportico. BASILICAS 159 When for the early atrium a simple portico on the street wassubstituted, as was especially the case in some… … Atrium and Fa9ade of S. Clemente (c. 1100) — that of the cathedral of Civita Castellana, where a largecentral arch breaks the line of the architrave. Atrium. — The use of the quadrangular atrium interveningbetween the church and the street, surrounded by a high walland insuring quiet, was quite…
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