. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )anel over each eapital, composed of a ;^eoniet-rieal patttMii of i;reen niai-hlc on a ^lonnd of red porphyiy, i viceversa, ^l^ig- 33.) The eifect is admirably stron*;- and nave and aisles are covered by barn-like roofs. There is nomosaic in the apses, bnt a broad band of it stretches across thewhole front wall of the nave above the doors, with a long inscriptionand a standing figure of a saint in a panel at either end. A cloister. Fij S. Sabina. Decoration of Nave Arcade. lies to
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )anel over each eapital, composed of a ;^eoniet-rieal patttMii of i;reen niai-hlc on a ^lonnd of red porphyiy, i viceversa, ^l^ig- 33.) The eifect is admirably stron*;- and nave and aisles are covered by barn-like roofs. There is nomosaic in the apses, bnt a broad band of it stretches across thewhole front wall of the nave above the doors, with a long inscriptionand a standing figure of a saint in a panel at either end. A cloister. Fij S. Sabina. Decoration of Nave Arcade. lies to the west of the church, of a design unusual in Rome, and sug-gesting the influence of Lombard examples. Not far from the date of the origin of S. Sabina, that is to say,early in the fifth century,^ the temple of Diana on the Caelian ss. Quattrow^as converted into the church of SS. Quattro Coronati, so in commemoration of four Christian soldiers who suffeieddeath for their faith under Diocletian. The church was rebuiltabout 630 by Honorius. The two arcades of thirteen columns each,carrying round arches, wdth the galleries above enclosed by smallerarcades with Ionic columns, the arches springing from stilt-blocks(perhaps a later addition), were preserved in the new church, as wasalso the apse, opening directly from the nave, without the interven-tion of a transept. Under Leo IV., about 850, the church wasenlarged and embellished, but at the end of the eleventh century itwas partially destroyed by the Norman Robert Guiscard
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