. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. continuity of its colonnadescombine to make it one ofthe most effective and im-posing of all the Romanchurches. It is a rectangleabout two hundred andsixty-five feet long and oneInnuhvd and ten feet wideinside the walls. The nave,the only original ])art left,has a breadth of sixty feet and a height of sixty. It is spparated Le Tarouilly, p. GOo, tt seq. Fig. 27. IS. Maria Maj;|;ioiv, KAKLV ClllilSlIAN A liCI I H IXrilJUK a» from tlio aislrs by loii^ colonnades of Ionic cohiinnH of wliit«? ni:irl»l
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. continuity of its colonnadescombine to make it one ofthe most effective and im-posing of all the Romanchurches. It is a rectangleabout two hundred andsixty-five feet long and oneInnuhvd and ten feet wideinside the walls. The nave,the only original ])art left,has a breadth of sixty feet and a height of sixty. It is spparated Le Tarouilly, p. GOo, tt seq. Fig. 27. IS. Maria Maj;|;ioiv, KAKLV ClllilSlIAN A liCI I H IXrilJUK a» from tlio aislrs by loii^ colonnades of Ionic cohiinnH of wliit«? ni:irl»l«*and ji^ranito, feet liij;li, with narrow intervals, cairyinj; a horizontalentaldature, with mosaic friezes and decorated cornicre, aliovi; whichrises a clerestory wall, with Hat Corinthian pilasters over the colnmnsbelow, and pierced with lar<;e ronnd-headed windows, nnder which areS(iuare panels inclosing what lliibsch believes to be the oldest mosaicsin Home. The face of the triumphal arch is also decrorated withmosaics, ])erhaps of e(pial anti(pnty. Those of the tribune itself. Fig-. 26. IS. Maria Maggiore. were given by Nicholas IV. at the end of the thirteenth century^who also adorned the upper part of the front with mosaics of similarcharacter. The nave is covered by a coffered ceiling richly paintedand gilded ; ^ the aisles are covered with barrel vaults. The majestic continuity of the great nave colonnades was sadlyimpaired when the two cruciform chapels were built between 1586and 1630, one on either side of the church, the one by Pope Sixtus V.,the other by the Borghese famil}^ — when, to mark the entrances tothese ambitious family monuments, two intervals of the colonnadeon each side were thrown into one and covered by a broad and higharch springing from coupled columns. ^ Hiibsch maintains that the present ceiling-, which dates from the fifteenth century,replaced an older one, and that the practice of leaving the roof open and visible was onewhich prev
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