Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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,M«ii«t wa.s .similar to that of the (loul»l» teiiipli of Venus and Konie in theForum, huilt in the reij,ni of Ant. Tiu-s. and of which the ruins still exist. See Hiibsch.pi. 1, fig. IC), for plan. LAULV tllKlSTLV.N AUCllll I ;m, hoin^ tluii al)l)<)t, irstored ami <ii-lar<;o(l tlio cliurch of Sixtiis, and united tlu* two clmrclics l)y n*inovin^both apsts. Finally, about 121l)-1227, Ilonorins III. added thefine entrance porch. In its pr«S(?nt aspect there is litth; harmonybetween th(^ two portions of the basilic^a, but the effect of the interioris one* of great picturesqueness. Iljc breadth of the two churchesis the same, about 02 feet, and the nave colonnades are very nearlyin the same line. Ihe hui<^th of the front church is W^ feet, thatof the rear 05 feet. The whole of the nave of the smaller (diurch
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Fig-. J.O. i>. Lorenzo. Section of the Early Chuith. was, when the two were thrown together, taken for the chancel orpresbytery. But as the floor of the rear church was on a consider-ably lower level than that of the front, it became necessary to raiseit. The level of the chancel w^as thus made some four feet above thenave, from which it is reached by two stairs of seven steps ; whiletwo others descend from the aisles to the crypt. The space betweenthe old floor and the new was utilized for a crypt. The lower rangeof columns was thus buried for nearly or quite half their height.They have recently, however, been uncovered, and are visible fromthe aisles, and also from the crypt. (Fig. 25.) The chancel is enclosedon either side by a low marble wall with panels of red and green por-phyry, with marble benches, and backed by a screen of mosaic, withthe bishops chair in the middle. The upper and lower ranges of ^ De Rossi, however, believes it -was not till the time of Honorius that the

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