Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 164
ng wall,which for economy of building material, as well as for purelyartistic considerations, was broken by a series of niches. ThePantheon at Rome is the most colossal and altogether thenoblest example of this type ; the wall surface is diversified byeight great niches (including the door),… … the Pantheon made possi-ble a special decorativefeature which consisted inrows of columns in front ^ of the niches, but the Fig. 43. - Plans of b^ulldm^^s^of t^ application of the general ^^ ^^^^^^^^ baptistery, Eavenna. 6, S. George,scheme was obviously Thessalonica. c, Arian baptistery, Eavenna.…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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