The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 39
t, as later, filled with altars and chapels, but the ba-silica was surrounded by subsidiary buildings, especially bymonasteries built by Leo the Great and his successors and bysumptuous circular mausolea, of which two were of especialinterest, that of the Anicii Probi, the imperial mausoleum ofthe… … 64774 THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE AND HONORIUS 29 of singers. Later an entire suburb grew up around thebasilica. When the group was supplemented in the century after Con-stantine and connected with the mausoleum and bridge ofHadrian by an arcaded boulevard, the general effect must havebeen imposing,…
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