The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 174
. BASILICAS 163 along the edge and across the base of the gable, of the usualline of cuneiform bricks placed diagonally and by a slightstone cornice. But in the more important churches the entiresurface was concealed by a mosaic composition extending fromsummit to portico, several of whicli are… … Portico of S. Saba, by Jacobo di Lorenzo. (c. 1200.) of color. Still, toward the close of the Middle Ages more win-dows were sometimes opened in the facade. At S. Peter inthe thirteenth century, beside the wheel-window in the gable,there were two rows of three tall mullioned windows, the lowerrow…
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