サンタニェーゼ・フォーリ・レ・ムーラ聖堂の建築的特徴と階上廊の意義

抄録

The architectural features and the meaning of the gallery of Sant' Agnese fuori le mura, examined based on the author's survey and historical sources, are as follows: 1) The colonnades, the cornice and the interior surface of walls of the gallery have different characters of plan from those of the aisles. 2) Two stories, which have no stairway to connect them, were divided clearly by various architectural meanings. 3) The pilgrims entered the ground floor and venerated the sanctuary above the saint's tomb, while the gallery was used by nuns. 4) The choice of images of mosaic and the height of vault of the apsis have strong connection with the nature of the gallery of Sant' Agnese as middle space between the earth and the God in heaven.