The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 198
ch.More interesting, because free and intentional, are the few BASILICAS 187 cases of the use of square piers instead of columns as internalsupports. They appear in three very early buildings, thebasilicas of Paramachius at Porto (c. 398 a.d.), of S. Petronillaand of S. Sinforosa on the Via… … Interior of S. Maria sopra MiDerva. rebuilt by Innocent 11 in 1128 for S. Bernard and decoratedand consecrated by Honorius III in 1221. I should attributethe use of the piers and the severe simplicity of the interiorto the influence of S. Bernards Burgundian Cistercian monks,who were placed in…
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