Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . P-- S lir-T W^w! -? - \^fr tr^r *? Fig. G1.—Dccoi-cativc Details of S. Saviour, Brescia—Vlllth Century. S. Francis) appear to be pro\ided with crypts correspondingto the apsides which (by the style of the greater part of thecapitals, and especially of the mosaic pavements that may stillbe traced) evince lifth or sixth-century work. These remainisolated examples, however, and nothing more than unusuallyhigh and ample confessions. The confessions certainly served as receptacles for theprec
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . P-- S lir-T W^w! -? - \^fr tr^r *? Fig. G1.—Dccoi-cativc Details of S. Saviour, Brescia—Vlllth Century. S. Francis) appear to be pro\ided with crypts correspondingto the apsides which (by the style of the greater part of thecapitals, and especially of the mosaic pavements that may stillbe traced) evince lifth or sixth-century work. These remainisolated examples, however, and nothing more than unusuallyhigh and ample confessions. The confessions certainly served as receptacles for theprecious mortal remains of saints and martyrs, and thereforewere only required by churches \\hich possessed such relics. 149 S. Saviour of Bioscia \v,is one of these we gather fi-oma dii^loma of Adelchi, son of Desiderio, who recommends himselfto the intercession, De supra scriptorum cojpani (jiia in ipso^((iicto ceiiohio hitmata qiiiescniit. * All this seems to me to confirm the opinion that the church2)0ssessed a crypt as earty as the eighth century, and that theabove-mentioned po
Size: 2413px × 1036px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyea
