an adaptation from the Basilica of St. John Lateran at Eome, 

 and the portions so adapted are referred with doubt to the years 

 1100 or 1200.* 



To assist the reader in determining the value and amount of 

 inspiration derived from its Itahan prototyjie, we have given 

 the following woodcut of the pillars of one of the cloisters of the 



Lateran (that of San Paolo), to contrast with the view (p. 125) 

 of a portion of the colonnades around the Ante-Garden at South 

 Kensington. 



* " The Lateran was the palace of the Popes from the time of Constantine to 

 the period of the return of the Holy See from Avignon (] 377), when Gregory XI. 

 transferred the papal residence to the Vatican. It owes its name to the Basilica 

 occupying the site of the house of the senator Plaiitius Laterantis, who is men- 

 tioned by Tacitus as having been implicated in the conspiracy of Piso, for which he 

 was put to death by Nero. In the 4th century the Basilica was founded by 

 Constantine (at the instigation of St. Sylvester), and it is said that Constantine 

 assisted with his own hands to dig the foundation." — Murvaifs Handbook. 



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