The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 171
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 general before the eleventhcentury, not… … the old divisions of catechumens and penitents had fallen intodisuse, tradition maintained them in most cases. We even see in S. Clemente a case of the reconstruction ofthe atrium on a higher level as late as the beginning of the BASILICAS 161 twelfth century. Many old atria vanished in the…
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