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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)tistery of Ursus, indistinction to the Arian baptistery of Theodoric, built a centuryLiter. The cathedral,built by Bishop Ursusin the earliest years ofthe fifth century, imme-diately after the seat ofgovernment had beenfixed at Ravenna, theoldest and probably thefinest of the noble groupof Christian basilicas,has disappeared beneaththe tasteless rebuildingof the seventeenth cen-tury, its round bell-toweralone remaining. Butthe baptistery, which wascontemporary with it,and which was destroyedwithin a few years of itscompletion and rebuiltunder the Empress GallaPlacidia, between theyears 425-430, remainssubstantially unchanged.It is an octagonal build-ino^, whose diameter is
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Fig-. 47- Raveuna Baptistery. nearly the same as that of the central ring of the tomb of Constantiaor the church at Xocera, — about thirty-seven feet. The interioris undivided, but the flat spherical dome which covers it springsdirectly from the outer walls, at a height of about forty-two feetabove the pavement. The walls are, on the interior, divided into tw^a IZ ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY

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