Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . , which explains thesquare end of the existing choir. This church has thepeculiarity of a gallery over the aisle, a matroneum orgynaeconitis like the churches of the Greek rite, whichoccurs elsewhere in Rome only at S. Agnese. Angelisays the gallery here and at S. Agnese was made fordryness because the site was low and the floor damp,which is an explanation impossible to be accepted. It ismore likely attributable to Byzantine influence which was J- A. 13 194 ROME [CH. XIII s. Lorenzo powerful In Italy during the 6th century. The twoMura columns that carr
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . , which explains thesquare end of the existing choir. This church has thepeculiarity of a gallery over the aisle, a matroneum orgynaeconitis like the churches of the Greek rite, whichoccurs elsewhere in Rome only at S. Agnese. Angelisays the gallery here and at S. Agnese was made fordryness because the site was low and the floor damp,which is an explanation impossible to be accepted. It ismore likely attributable to Byzantine influence which was J- A. 13 194 ROME [CH. XIII s. Lorenzo powerful In Italy during the 6th century. The twoMura columns that carry the end gallery are quite Byzantine instyle, and rest on pedestals of the same character. Theside columns carrying the gallery are antiques and havecapitals of the best period of Roman Corinthian, amongwhich are two formed of trophies with Victories at theangles. They carry a horizontal entablature made up ofclassic fragments of all sorts and sizes put together in astrange medley, no one piece fitting its neighbour. The {a^ CcUfaneo). CHl/RCH or SEXTVS Hi4J1 - 1+0 r i* r r I* 1^ .for nxrr -L THROWN -^ CONSTANTUsrtiCHURCHTOGETHER j 4™ CENTURY Fig. 42. columns of the upper storey are slighter and haveCorinthian capitals that look like antiques, and they allhave the pulvino and carry round arches, above which isa clerestory. The floor of the aisles remains at theoriginal level, but that of the choir was raised in the13th century over a crypt, so that the full length of thegreat columns can only be seen in the aisle. The second church, with an orientation the reverseof the other, was built by Sixtus III (432—440). Thecolumns are no doubt antiques for they are of various sizes,
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