Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . )lain in some waythe presence of such avast and grand con-struction in a centuryso unfortunate for theArts, imagined that thehase must have belongedto a pre - existent ro-tunda. The church ofthe eighth century wasvery probably of basilicalform, like all its con-temporaries in only informationwe have about it treatsof the existence thereinof a subterranean placeor confessional. It is. Fig. 112.—Plan of the Ci-j-pt of the Eotunda ofBrescia—End of the Vlllth Centm-v. the same chronicler,
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . )lain in some waythe presence of such avast and grand con-struction in a centuryso unfortunate for theArts, imagined that thehase must have belongedto a pre - existent ro-tunda. The church ofthe eighth century wasvery probably of basilicalform, like all its con-temporaries in only informationwe have about it treatsof the existence thereinof a subterranean placeor confessional. It is. Fig. 112.—Plan of the Ci-j-pt of the Eotunda ofBrescia—End of the Vlllth Centm-v. the same chronicler, Eodolfo, who writes : In luiltis Cotnith(Yilleradi) diam ttiiipoir Jltiiiiprrtiin cpincopii-^ <J<: lurlcsld SaudiAiidrcdc podarit corpii^^ sttiidl Ihiladrii intra ciritatcin in con-fcssidin iiKijuri-s ccdcslar saiidnc I)(i (iciidrivis. The same eventis also recorded in a sermon of iS88, written and pronounced l)ythe same Bisho}) Bampertus. Well, the rotunda of Bresciastill has a cry})t A\ith every appearance of being that con,-structed towards the end ot the eighth century. This seemsto be the only residue of the basilica of Count Eaymond. Letus observe it. It is an entirely subterranean chamber, quite deprived oflight, of irregular form ; divided into five, then into three littlenaves, by isolated columns supporting intercrossed arcades. 2 20 The three central naves terminate in three lari;e niches, whichseem to indicate three apsides whicli then hegan to be used—a fact
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