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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ROMAN BASILICAS Especially true is this of the basilica, which, as far as weknow, was vaulted in only one very exceptional case — the Basil-ica of Constantine at Rome. The origin of this type of build-ing is not clear. It is usual to refer it to Greece on the theorythat in default of other evidence, everything Roman may safelybe assumed to be derived from Greek models.- Still, no traceof a Greek basilica has ever been found. Unfortunately not a single example of the Roman basilicahas come down to our days in even tolerable preservation; andthis, despite the fact that practically every Roman town pos-sessed at least one example. Ruins of twenty-three basilicas areknown to us, but of these, as a rule, only the plan can be madeout. At Trier and Brixworth the walls still stand; but in bothcases the buildings have undergone such serious alterations inlater times that the original arrangements are even more difficultto trace than in the examples more completely destroyed. From what eviden

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