. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fi jr. o. Chapels at the Entrance of the Cataeoiub of Pretextatus, an excellent example of the Roman brickwork of the fourth century,with its long thin bricks, laid with thick joints of mortar. The second chapel is a circle, somewhat more than thirty feet indiameter, with six semicircular apses opening from it by single roundarches, each apse covered by a hemispherical brick vault. In thewall of one of the apses is a narrow entrance doorway, and the apseopposite the door, considerably broader and
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fi jr. o. Chapels at the Entrance of the Cataeoiub of Pretextatus, an excellent example of the Roman brickwork of the fourth century,with its long thin bricks, laid with thick joints of mortar. The second chapel is a circle, somewhat more than thirty feet indiameter, with six semicircular apses opening from it by single roundarches, each apse covered by a hemispherical brick vault. In thewall of one of the apses is a narrow entrance doorway, and the apseopposite the door, considerably broader and higher than the others,was evidently the chancel. Above the arches the wall is pierced bytwelve rectangular windows. The central vault — doubtless a hemi-spherical dome — has disappeared. In this building we have thel)rototyi)e of many of the baptisteries of the ninth, tenth, and eleventhcenturies in North Italy. It is not. liowever, to be inferred that the eruciforni phm had as yet any symbolicsignificance. The recesses by which the plan took that form were simply the most obvi-ous and c
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