The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 179
ural furniture: an enclosing rail, about thewidth of the central nave and of considerably greater length;within it the choir-seats, the ambones or pulpits and thepaschal ca,ndlestick; at its further end the altar, often at thetop of a low line of steps, with its confession, its canopy orciborium… … Interior of S. Maria Maggiore.(Fourth and fifth centuries, with Renaissance ceiling.) column. The shafts were monoliths, of course ; not constructedin courses, as had been the Greek custom and as was to be themediaeval custom in other schools. The aisles were so muchlower and narrower than the nave…
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