The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 177
windows forming a plain clerestory. No heavy cornicesgave any horizontal play of light and shade. It was only very exceptionally, as at S. Marco and S.Lorenzo, that the high choir, which became so common in thenorth during the Carlovingian era, was adopted in Eomanchurches. Even when confessions… … Main Doorway of Cathedral, Civita Castellana. BASILICAS 167 were there in the nave any vertical interruptions in the formof piers or engaged shafts or pilasters, such as would haveoccurred had the school adopted vaulting, which it onlyoccasionally used in the side-aisles. The most interestingcrypt…
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