Identifier: monumentsofearly00lowr (find matches)
Title: Monuments of the early church
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959
Subjects: Christian antiquities Christian art and symbolism Church architecture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, MacMillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 31. — Church iu Babuda, S^iia. 1 Poem 28 : v. 200: nam steterant vasto de/ormlbus aymine pilis. 112 AliClIITECTUBE architrave (or arcliivolt) varied from about ^^ to y^^ of the totalheight of the clearstory Avail. A peculiarity of the East was the construction of galleriesover the side aisles and opening upon the nave ; the walls abovethem were in turn supported by lower arcades. This was ap-parently a common feature of the civil basilicas, but in theWest at least it was not originally employed in the Christian.Even in the East it was probably not used in the beginning;
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-■^ Fig. 32. —Basilica in Turmanin, Syria (restoration of fafade). at all events the Syrian and Palestinian churches almost with-out exception have but one story. Elsewhere, however, thetwo-story scheme became the rule in the course of the sixthcentury, — especially in domed structures, where it was morein keeping with the architectural lines of the building (Fig. 46).As employed in the basilica it had a tendency to raise the lineof vision above the altar. The basilicas of Ravenna were inthis respect uninfluenced by Byzantine custom ; only the polyg-onal church of S. Vitale was constructed with galleries. The THE BASILICA —Windows 113 galleries which appear in E,oman basilicas (S. Lorenzo, S, Agnese,S. Cecilia, and SS. Xereo eel Achilleo) belong to the period (sixthto ninth centuries) during which Rome was subject to Byzan-tine influence. The galleries were apportioned to the women,and it seems probable that the stricter separation of the sexesin the East was the chief reason

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