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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From .1 point near the apse a stair descended to a small confessio or crypt extendingundfr .i jxtrtion of tlie transept, and which contained the sarcophaji:us of St. Peter. ■* Wiebekintf, Analyse, etc., i. 5()S ; lliibsch, p. xvi. pt. :), 4; Gutensohn and Knapp. KAKI.V CIIUIsriAN AKCIII I !:( I IKK j<» tho vvjills of the (•()^t\^ssio with silvor, and l)(^;;(<l of th<! I^nipciorHeniclius the il(hMl roof tiles of the teiiiphi of Venus and Kome,wliieh he tninsfencd to the roof of the ^n^at l)a.sili(;a. iladriaii I. also bestowed nuieh attention upon St. JVters. Thebasiliea was approaeluul from the eity gate, near the mausolcMini ofHadrian, by a h)ni;- eovered colonnade, which ha<l become more; or Ihhhruinous. The Pope restored this eolonnack, strengthenin<^ its foun-dations, as the ehronieles say, by more than twelve thousand blocksof tufa, probably taken from the ruins of ancient Kome. Herestored the atrium and enriched the bell tower, which his predecessor,
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Fig. 19. Section of St. Peter s. Stephen II., had built at the right of the entrance, with great bronzedoors brought from some temple at Perugia.^ Within, continuingthe work of Honorius, one hundred and fifty years before, he laiddown before the door of the confessio a pavement of solid silverplates weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, and decorated thewalls with bas-reliefs of gold. The mosaic had fallen from the vaultof the apse. Hadrian replaced and renewed it after the originaldesign. In the middle of the ninth century, the basilica had become the 1 These were stolen by the Saracens in the sack of 846. Grimaldi climbed the roof at the beginning of 1603 and found it covered with threekinds of tiles, bronze, brick, and lead, — the bronze cast in the time of the Emperor Ha-drian for the roof of the temple of Venus and Rome, and transferred to S. Peters about6o0 ; the brick tiles all stamped with the inscription or seal of Theodorie, fifth century ;the lead stamped with names of v

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