Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . S. MARIA MAGGIORE—ROME CH. XIIl] ROME 197 Many Greeks were driven from Constantinople by s. Mariain , . , . • 1 n 1 1 Cosmedin the iconoclastic movement in the 8th century, and acolony of them settled in Rome, near the Velabrum,where they were given the church of S. Maria, whichwas called in schola Graeca, or by the new settlers in Cosmedin after a region of their old home inConstantinople. The church was built in 772 byHadrian I on the site of a temple to Ceres, Libera, and La tg^i>«^7w;. 5 MARIA IN COSnEDlN . RO/AE. ( 44, Libero (Prose
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . S. MARIA MAGGIORE—ROME CH. XIIl] ROME 197 Many Greeks were driven from Constantinople by s. Mariain , . , . • 1 n 1 1 Cosmedin the iconoclastic movement in the 8th century, and acolony of them settled in Rome, near the Velabrum,where they were given the church of S. Maria, whichwas called in schola Graeca, or by the new settlers in Cosmedin after a region of their old home inConstantinople. The church was built in 772 byHadrian I on the site of a temple to Ceres, Libera, and La tg^i>«^7w;. 5 MARIA IN COSnEDlN . RO/AE. ( 44, Libero (Proserpine and Bacchus) of which traces remainin the opus quadratum on one side of the crypt. Thenew church had and has three apses according to theGreek rite (Fig. 44), a novelty at Rome at that time, andit had a matroneum, or womens gallery, which lateralterations destroyed. The twelve arches of the nave oneach side are divided by wide piers into groups of four:the columns are of granite with antique capitals of various 198 ROME [cH. XIII s. Maria forms: 3. blank wall has replaced the triforium ormedin matroneum ; there is a clerestory of small windows aboveand except where blocked by later chapels the aisles arelit by similar small round-headed lights. At the west end are three lofty blank arches partlycut into by the nave arcades, and therefore evidentlybelonging to an older edifice of wider span. This isbelieved to have been a statio annonae of Imperialtimes which had been formed out of the earlier demolition by
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