. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 9. S. Basilla. the churches built, or at least begun, by him has been brought tos. Petro light within the present generation. This is the so-calledniiia. Basilica of S. Petronilla, in the cemetery of Domitilla, of which the i-emains were discovered by De Kossi, in 1873. It wasa church with a lenj^th of about one hundred feet and a breadth ofsomewhat more than sixty feet, divided into nave and aisles by fourmarble colnmns on each side, the nave entered from a long porch ornarthex extendin<r
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 9. S. Basilla. the churches built, or at least begun, by him has been brought tos. Petro light within the present generation. This is the so-calledniiia. Basilica of S. Petronilla, in the cemetery of Domitilla, of which the i-emains were discovered by De Kossi, in 1873. It wasa church with a lenj^th of about one hundred feet and a breadth ofsomewhat more than sixty feet, divided into nave and aisles by fourmarble colnmns on each side, the nave entered from a long porch ornarthex extendin<r across the whole breadth of the church, and ter-minuting at the other end in a semi-circular apse. The church wasonly i)artly subterranean, its floor being some twenty feet below thesurface of the ground, or nearly on a level with the ui)i)er gallery ofthe catacomb, with which it connnunicated by doorways and passages^ Quoted by Nortlicote and Brownlow, p. 140. KAKIA CUIUS MAN AKCIUTKCTLUE 11. Fig. 10. kj. Sinforosa. on both sides, wliilo its wjills iind roof imist have risen t(i a consider-able lioij^lit above <;round. The basili(;a of Sta. Sinlorosa, so caUed, at Konu! is another inter-estin«^ exani|)k. (Fi*;*. 10.) VUo phm is licr*; also fidly d<- ^ sinfo-velojMd, with nave and aisles nearly one hundred feet lon<^, ?°*aeparaUut by scjuare piers, the nave terminating^ in a semicircularapse preceded by a sipiarecompartment. In boththese examples the i)lanand the construction arevery rude, — the wall andcolonnade on one side arenot parallel with those onthe other, the end wall isnot at right angles witheither, the brickwork of the walls is poor ; but the buildings areinteresting as showing the extent to which the development ofchurch building in the catacombs had advanced, and the point atwhich it stopped.^ For with the recognition and adoption of Christianity by Constan-tine, in 324, all the conditions were changed ; and although, as wehave seen, the affecti
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