Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913) (14589908527)

Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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H o o wPio Ch. xiii) ROME 195 but their Ionic capitals fit them well though they are ofunequal diameter : from which we may suppose they weremade for the church \ S. Lorenzo has an interesting cloister of the 12thcentury (Plate XLVIII) on the walls of which are fixedmany fragments of earlier work from the 5th centuryonwards. The fine basilica of S. Maria Maggiore (Plate s. MariaXLIX), founded in 352, was re-built from the foundations ^^^^°^^by Sixtus III in 432, in honour of the promulgation ofthe dogma of the ©eoro/cos. Like that of old S. Peters, and that of S. Maria inTrastevere, which in its present form dates only from the12th century, the colonnade carries a lintel instead ofarches. Mosaics of the 5th century, representing Biblestories, fill compartments above the colonnade^ and asplendid pavement of opus Alexandrinum laid by theCosmati in the 12th century covers the floor. In these mosaics, and the numerous others from the5th to the 8th century which abound in Rome wecannot b