. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ty of the older, classical good example of these buildings is seenin the still existing church in Rome, theLiberian basilica called commonly St. Marythe Greater (S. Maria Maggiore). Plate XVgives the interior of this building as drawnby Gutensohn for the great work of Bun-sen : the late alteration which spoils theuniformity of the colonnade on either sidebeing ignored. The columns of this colon-nade are entirely antique, excepting repairsand slight alterations. It is probable thatin this as well as in m
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ty of the older, classical good example of these buildings is seenin the still existing church in Rome, theLiberian basilica called commonly St. Marythe Greater (S. Maria Maggiore). Plate XVgives the interior of this building as drawnby Gutensohn for the great work of Bun-sen : the late alteration which spoils theuniformity of the colonnade on either sidebeing ignored. The columns of this colon-nade are entirely antique, excepting repairsand slight alterations. It is probable thatin this as well as in many similar structuresthe ancient pillars of a great outdoor por-tico, such as are described in Chapter II,were taken bodily for the interior of thechurch. The clergy of the fifth centurycared much less for the beauty and com-pleteness of the city outside than for, each,his own special dominion—the church whichhe controlled; and there was no munici-pality to prevent such spoliation. Theplan of the church is easy to understandfrom the plate itself; apart from the numer-[72].
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