History of mediæval art . 0 18 5 4-. Fig. 23.—Plan and Section of theBaptistery of the Lateran. can hardly be considered as the architectural prototype of S. Lo-renzo in Milan; it may better be compared to the six-columnedBaptistery of Aquileja, and to the somewhat more recent eight-columned Baptistery of the Cathedral at Novara. The combinationof the basilica! columnar system with a central plan, as in the Bap-tistery of the Lateran, attains its greatest size in S. Stefano rotondoin Rome, built by Pope Simplicius (A. D. 468-483). Instead oftwo stories we here meet with a duplication of the co
History of mediæval art . 0 18 5 4-. Fig. 23.—Plan and Section of theBaptistery of the Lateran. can hardly be considered as the architectural prototype of S. Lo-renzo in Milan; it may better be compared to the six-columnedBaptistery of Aquileja, and to the somewhat more recent eight-columned Baptistery of the Cathedral at Novara. The combinationof the basilica! columnar system with a central plan, as in the Bap-tistery of the Lateran, attains its greatest size in S. Stefano rotondoin Rome, built by Pope Simplicius (A. D. 468-483). Instead oftwo stories we here meet with a duplication of the concentric pas- CONCENTRIC EDIFICES. 43 sages: an extension based upon the same principle as the repetitionof the side aisles in the larger basilicas. Twenty Ionic columnssurround the central space. This, although cramped in comparisonwith the entire edifice, is still so great in diameter that the horizon-tal ceiling could not be constructed without the introduction oftwo intermediate supports, which appear in every way a disfigure-
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