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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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lerestory is pierced bysquare windows. The facade is quite concealed by a modern two-story porch. The atrium has disappeared, but traces of it are stillvisible. Santa Sabina, one of three basilicas built on the ruins of ancientRoman temples, is in its origin one of the oldest churches of Rome. ^ The noble tower of the church, twenty-seven feet square and two hundred andtwenty feet high, one of the finest of the campaniles, dates from the eighth century. 46 ARCHlTECTrRK IN HALV S. Sabina. Early in the fifth century, the Temple of Liberty on the Aventinewas converted into a church, using the Ayalls and thetwenty-four columns of the lower story, in their originalpositions, the upper columns being probably used in the atrium. Itwas restored under Hadrian I. late in the eighth century, and againunder Eugenius II. in 824.^ Its plan is very simple. There is notransept, the nave and right aisle terminate in apses, the left aislein a square recess. The three easternmost bays of nave and aisles
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Fig. iy2. JS. Sabina. are raised some steps abovci the nave, the stei)s running across thewhole breadth of the church. The nave arcades are supported bytwelve fine fluted anti(pie columns on each side, of Greek marblewith C.orinthian capitals. The walls above are pierced by the largeround-arched windows, three on each side, ))eculiar to the earliestbasilicas. The decoration of the arcades, which dates j)robably fromthe restorations of P^ugenius II., is uni(pie. Directly over the arch-heads runs a frieze of niarbh inlay, with circles, lozenges, and squares ^ Platiier. vol. .). i. j). 4l;5, h.is ;i ck-ar acwmnt of the siK-ees-sive restorations. At theiud of the .sixtetiitli century, tlie tliree stajje.s of it.s arehitectuml liistory were shownside by side, viz. the floor and walls of the old church of the fifth century, the choirend of Kiifjenius II. of the ninth century, and the restorations of the thirteenth century.and later. KAKI.V ClIKIsriAN AKCIII IKCI IliK 47 of <;rion, red, a

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