Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 46. the tomb of Cardinal Venerio (d. 1479) in the upperchurch are two elaborately carved shafts with Byzantinecapitals belonging to the lower church, which are said tohave carried the baldacchino over the altar, but seem toosmall for that office. The walls of the lower church arecovered with interesting paintings\ Lower still are the remains of a Roman building withwalls some of which go back to the time of the kings, They are illustrated in Fra Nolans book, The Basilica of S. Clementein Rome, 1910. Plate LI. S. jT SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO—ROME CH. xiii
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 46. the tomb of Cardinal Venerio (d. 1479) in the upperchurch are two elaborately carved shafts with Byzantinecapitals belonging to the lower church, which are said tohave carried the baldacchino over the altar, but seem toosmall for that office. The walls of the lower church arecovered with interesting paintings\ Lower still are the remains of a Roman building withwalls some of which go back to the time of the kings, They are illustrated in Fra Nolans book, The Basilica of S. Clementein Rome, 1910. Plate LI. S. jT SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO—ROME CH. xiii] ROME 201 forming part of a domestic building which is supposed to s. cie-have been the dwelling of S. Clement himself, in whichthe original ecclesia domestica held its meetings. Beyondit is a subterranean temple of Mithras, whose statue, anda sculpture of the familiar slaying of the mystic bull, havebeen found there. Unluckily all these buildings of thelower stage are now full of water and inaccessible\ Like S. Clemente the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, ss. gio-on the Celian, was built over the house of the saints to Paoiowhom it is dedicated, which is fortunately quite principal rooms have paintings, the most importantone representing Ceres, Proserpine and Bacchus (Liberaet Libero) with other figures. The Pagan pictures ofthe 2nd century are well done, but the Christian paintingson the other walls of the 3rd, 4th and 6th, are body of the church above has been entirely modernizedand gorgeously decorated : but th
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