The list of relics on the right of the apsis of Sta.
The very important frescoes of the choir apsis of Sta.
The seven-sided apsis with ambulatory, on which open out seven pentagonal radiating chapels.
The nave of the chapel is in tolerably good preservation, but the apsis has suffered severely from damp.
In the choir the arches become pointed, but with Norman mouldings: the apsis is a reconstruction.
The exterior of the apsis is very curious: it is obtusely angular, and faced at the corners with large rude columns, of whose capitals, some are Doric and Corinthian, others as wild as the fancies of the Norman lords of the country.
Between the apsis and the auditory, called the "nave," was the altar; for by this time the Church was borrowing names and emblems from the Jews and the old religions.
From the apsis to the extremity of the other end of the building were two rows of pillars supporting an upper wall, broken by circular arches and windows, called now the "clear story.
It does not span the apsis of a church; it spans rivers and valleys.
The apsis had no window, was vaulted, and its walls were covered with figures of Christ and of the saints, or of eminent Christians who in later times were canonized by the popes.
Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns.
In the former the pillars were probably square, and the apsis is not marked outside.
The transept before the raised apsiswas an innovation.
The church is very dimly lighted by small apertures in the walls of the clerestory, above the columns, and the part about the apsis is nearly dark in the middle of the day, candles being always necessary during the reading of the service.
The apsis is of regular Grecian or Roman architecture, and is ornamented with six pilasters, and three niches in which are kept the books, cymbals, candlesticks, and other things which are used for the daily service.
At the further end of this chamber was a stone altar, standing upon one or two steps, in an apsis or semicircular recess.
Theinterior of the principal church in this monastery is interesting from the number of early Greek pictures which it contains, and which are hung on the walls of the apsis behind the altar.
The half domes of the apsis and two transepts, which were of well-built masonry, were still entire, and the original frescos remain upon them.
The refectory is a separate building, with an apsis at the upper end, in which stands a marble table where the sacred bread used by the Greek church is usually placed, and where, I believe, the agoumenos or the bishop dines on great occasions.
In a few moments the sovereign pontiff entered, preceded by the senate and by the officers of his court, and, after kneeling a few moments at the prie-dieu, went to his throne in the apsis of the aula.
Only through the glory, or circular stained window in the apsis of the basilica, there comes in a golden light from the western sky.
In the choir the arches become pointed, but with Norman mouldings: the apsis is a re-construction.
But the choir and apsis were previously of a different æra from the rest of the edifice.
Climb the zig-zag road as far as the church of =Cutry=, remarkable edifice whose nave and apsis were destroyed.
Of theapsis and chapels, only the walls and columns remain.
The apsis itself is probably a re-erection with the original materials, but anterior to Duke William.
The crypt, below the apsis represented in the cut at the foot of this chapter, is supposed to be Roman, and coeval with the earliest introduction of Christianity at Rouen.
The earliest example of a more animated treatment is, perhaps, the figure in the apsis of St. John Lateran.
The next in date which remains visible, is the group in the apsisof S.
The exterior of the apsis is very curious: it is obtusely angular, and faced at the corners with large rude columns, of whose capitals some are Doric or Corinthian, others as wild as the fancies of the Norman lords of the country.
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