. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. the apse wall and gives access to the cell under the altar,developed into a crypt, at first small, embracing sometimes only the 1 Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Borne, p. 120. 14 AUCHlTECrURK lx\ ITALY space beneath the apse, as at Torcello, but later extending under aconsiderable portion of the nave, and in some rare instances underthe whole church. The confessio was often adorned with rich mate-rials, paintings, mosaics, silver and gold and costly hangings. The adaptability of the Pagan basilicas
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. the apse wall and gives access to the cell under the altar,developed into a crypt, at first small, embracing sometimes only the 1 Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Borne, p. 120. 14 AUCHlTECrURK lx\ ITALY space beneath the apse, as at Torcello, but later extending under aconsiderable portion of the nave, and in some rare instances underthe whole church. The confessio was often adorned with rich mate-rials, paintings, mosaics, silver and gold and costly hangings. The adaptability of the Pagan basilicas of Home — the great hallsof justice, serving also the purposes of the modern exchange —The Pagan to the uscs of Christian worship, where great congregationsbasilicas. ^vere to be gathered together, where the sexes were to bedivided, where the greater and smaller dignitaries of the church wereto be provided with spaces for the ceremonial observances of the newworship, was too obvious to be neglected. But the extent to whichthey were copied in the Christian basilicas has been greatly over-. WHKiiKiKii PiPiRHVKB in m m m m w m w 9 11 S m m
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