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THE LESSON OF ROME
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THE NAVE OF SS. MARIA IN COSMEDIN, A.D. 790 AND 1120
This quite tiny church of S. Maria, a church for poor people, set in the midst of noisy and luxurious Rome, proclaims the noble pomp of mathematics, the unassailable power of proportion, the sovereign eloquence of relationship. The design is merely that of the ordinary basilica, that is to say the form of architecture in which barns and hangars are built. The walls arc of rough lime plaster. There is only one colour, white; always powerful since it is positive. This tiny church commands
