Monuments of the early church . Fig. 45. — Early them perished; we know them only from the descriptions ofEusebius and of mediaeval pilgrims, and from the imitations towhich churches of such fame naturally gave rise. The onlychurches of this sort which exist are S. Stefano Rotondo atKome (Fig. 44, 6), of the middle of the fifth century, andS. Angelo in Perugia, a reduced copy of it made about a cen-tury later and now half destroyed. S. Stefano has long stoodas a riddle among the monuments of Roman with some plausibility attributes its erection to Placidia,and thus connects i
Monuments of the early church . Fig. 45. — Early them perished; we know them only from the descriptions ofEusebius and of mediaeval pilgrims, and from the imitations towhich churches of such fame naturally gave rise. The onlychurches of this sort which exist are S. Stefano Rotondo atKome (Fig. 44, 6), of the middle of the fifth century, andS. Angelo in Perugia, a reduced copy of it made about a cen-tury later and now half destroyed. S. Stefano has long stoodas a riddle among the monuments of Roman with some plausibility attributes its erection to Placidia,and thus connects it with the church which her grand-mother Eudoxia built at Jerusalem in honor of the proto-martyr Stephen and as her own mausoleum. This historybrings it at once into relation with the memorial build-ings of Constantinian foundation; it also explains how thistype, which was expressly and appropriately designed for a THE CENTRAL TYPE— Composite Plan 141 memorial, came, through the celebrity of Constantines exam-ple, to be cop
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