. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. e present nave andaisles, — about fifty feet, — and second,that the length of the original nave andaisles included the space now occupiedby the inner atrium and its porch.^ () The outer atrium, a portion of that ofthe original church, is of modern aspect,but has at its front an ancient squaretower, very broad and massive, piercedFig. 34. SS. Quattro Coronati. ^t the base by a pointed arched vault giving entrance to the court, the onlyother feature being a range of four small round-arched op
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. e present nave andaisles, — about fifty feet, — and second,that the length of the original nave andaisles included the space now occupiedby the inner atrium and its porch.^ () The outer atrium, a portion of that ofthe original church, is of modern aspect,but has at its front an ancient squaretower, very broad and massive, piercedFig. 34. SS. Quattro Coronati. ^t the base by a pointed arched vault giving entrance to the court, the onlyother feature being a range of four small round-arched openings atthe top on each face divided by stumpy mid-wall columns; some ofthe openings are filled up. San Martino ai Monti, built about 500 by Symmachus, restoredby Sergius II. in the ninth century, and again in the thirteenth ands Martino seventeenth, has the aspect of a lesser S. M. ^ Monte, j^-j, j^^^^, navc colonnades, each of twelve antique Corin-thian columns, mostly of white marble on high i)linths, and substan- Plainer, 3, i. p. 503. Small plan in Ilubsch. pi. 3. EARLY CiiUISTlAxN AKCmTKCTLRK 49 tially Jililvt in size nwd tlisi«;n, support :i liorizontul entablatun; at halfthe lioi^ht of the nave, above; whicli is a hi^h clerestory wall with Hatl)ilast(MS and arehed windows. All ceilinj^s are flat excej)t that ofthe apse. There is no transept, bnt a central apse of the nsual form,of which the floor, with that of a portion of the nave, ineludin<^ twobays, is raised some feet above that of the rest of the nave, in orderto give greater height to an ancient crypt,^ divided into three groinedbays, and entered by a descending stair from the centre of the naveunder three arches, while side staircases ascend to the floor of thetribune, — an arrangement prefiguring that of San Zeno at Verona,San Miniato at Florence, and ^ The ancient atrium is reducedto a bare court before the church. With the sixth century, the building of basilicas greatly
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