. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. Early Christian monuments in the East and at Ravenna the apsehad been often prolonged. = S. Anibrogio of Milan is perhaps the earliest example, but the lengthened choiralso occurred at S. Gallo (111. 87). Cattaneo offers an explanation of this fact, full of<lelicious humor. Si fatto, he says,prolungamento comincio a coniparire nei secoli vicini al niille, specialmente in quelle chiesedie seriivano ai nionaci, i quali, essendo usafi di passare buona parte del di e della notte entrela chiesa salm
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. Early Christian monuments in the East and at Ravenna the apsehad been often prolonged. = S. Anibrogio of Milan is perhaps the earliest example, but the lengthened choiralso occurred at S. Gallo (111. 87). Cattaneo offers an explanation of this fact, full of<lelicious humor. Si fatto, he says,prolungamento comincio a coniparire nei secoli vicini al niille, specialmente in quelle chiesedie seriivano ai nionaci, i quali, essendo usafi di passare buona parte del di e della notte entrela chiesa salmodiando, aviauno sentito linalmente il bisogno di un recinto piii riparato dall ariae meno aceessibile agli sguardi curiosi del popolo, che non fossero gli aperti cancelli delle vecchiebasiliche. E quest invenzione, forse dei claustrali, fu poi trovata tanto opportuna, che dopo ilmille sallargo anche alle chiese ove ofliciava il clero secolare. 157 CAROLINGIAN ARCHITECTURE never seem to have been employed together in Carolingiantimes. In one other direction did CaroHngian architecture autici-. III. 94. — Plan of S. Ambrogio, IVIilan. (By F. J. Walls) pate important later developments. In speaking of Syrianarchitecture, we have already mentioned the difficulty of treat-ing the west fa9ade of a basilica, and have pointed out how 158 WESTERN TOWERS that problem had been solved in certain Syrian churches likeKalb Lauzeh (111. 57), by flanking the central gable with twotowers. Now in Carolingian times the atrium, which, to a cer-tain extent, had masked the awkwardness of the facade in theEarly Christian basilicas, had passed out of use, and the archi-tects found themselves face to face with this problem. Theysolved it precisely as the Syrians had done, by erecting twosquare towers to flank the western gable. This idea was ap-plied for the first time (as far as is known) in certain of the T-formed basilicas- of the Rhine valley—the Salvatorskircheat Frankfurt (111. 95) and possib
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