. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. difices from which there was hope of a booty, — they may have profaned churchesand oratories erected over the tombs of the martyrs. Hut the wholesale destruction, theobliteration of classical and media-val monuments, is the work of the Homans and oftheir rulers. T«> them, more than to the barbarians, we owe the present condi-tion of the Campa^^na. in the midst of which Home like an oasis in a barren soli-tude. Lanciani. Idtjati (iml Christian Home, p. 100. KAKLV LliUlSIIAN
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. difices from which there was hope of a booty, — they may have profaned churchesand oratories erected over the tombs of the martyrs. Hut the wholesale destruction, theobliteration of classical and media-val monuments, is the work of the Homans and oftheir rulers. T«> them, more than to the barbarians, we owe the present condi-tion of the Campa^^na. in the midst of which Home like an oasis in a barren soli-tude. Lanciani. Idtjati (iml Christian Home, p. 100. KAKLV LliUlSIIAN AUCllliKCrLltK M horo and tluic a shaft of ^ray granite. The arcade in earned aroiimlthe entrance end (d* the ehnn^h, where it forms a nartiiex. Theaish\s an^ divided into two stories, the npper foiinin«j^ ori«;inaliy a•aUery for th(r nse of the women ; and tliis j^uIUmy, which is alsocairied aronnd the end of the ehnrcli, has an arcade like that helow,bnt on a smaller scale. The (capitals here are surmonnted hy smallstilt hhxrks. Above the second arcade, the clerestory wall is pienred. Fig-. 2^}. St. Agnes without the Walls. with simple round-arched windows. The nave had a wooden trussedroof of low pitch : ^ the aisle galleries had a lean-to roof ; but arenow groined, like the aisles themselves. The hemispherical vault ofthe apse is still covered with the original mosaics, three figures on agold ground. They are of small merit, probably dating from theseventh century, at which period the art of the mosaicist had greatlydeclined.^ Over the small confessio, which contains the body ofthe saint, stands the high altar, in the centre of a square chancel ^ To which, in the seventeenth century, was added a coffered and richly carved and^Ided ceiling-. ^ The wall below retains its facing- of marble slabs divided into compartments byvertical lines of darker marble. 62 ARCHITECTURE IN ITxVLY enclosed by ii balustrade. The altar was formerly covered by aciboriiiin of gilt bronze, t
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