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Article: Early Christian Chapels in the West: Decoration, Function, and Patronage.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Early Christian Chapels in the West: Decoration, Function, and Patronage. By Gillian Mackie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xx + 378 pp. $100.00 cloth.
In the brief introduction to this useful if diffuse study of a characteristic element in Christian architecture, Gillian Mackie affirms her purpose to gather the "scattered information about chapels in the West in the first four centuries of organized Christianity" (3). For this she is to be congratulated: she has analyzed a very wide range of documentary and archaeological data for chapels in towns and cities from Sicily to Milan and Istria, with a glance cast at a few sites in Spain and southern ...