. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. work without anytrace of Byzantine feeling, and he attributes thebuilding to the earliest period of the revivedAquileja. A pierced slab now lies in the pavement of theChiesa dei Pagani which probably covered thecentral drain of the baptismal piscina. On entering the church one cannot fail to bestruck by the majesty and dignity of its effect, butit is a surprise to find that after all it is not abasilica of the type of S. Apollinare in Classe orParenzo, but a Gothic church with arcades ofpointed arches (Pl
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. work without anytrace of Byzantine feeling, and he attributes thebuilding to the earliest period of the revivedAquileja. A pierced slab now lies in the pavement of theChiesa dei Pagani which probably covered thecentral drain of the baptismal piscina. On entering the church one cannot fail to bestruck by the majesty and dignity of its effect, butit is a surprise to find that after all it is not abasilica of the type of S. Apollinare in Classe orParenzo, but a Gothic church with arcades ofpointed arches (Plate LXIV). Further examinationshews that as usual the columns and their capitalsare survivals of an older building than the presentchurch, though even they cannot be referred to aperiod more remote than the rebuilding of the churchby Patriarch Poppo between 1019 and 1045. Below the choir is a crypt which it is just possiblemay have belonged to an older church than have even considered it part of the building ofFortunatian, who succeeded in A. D. 347. It is piauaiv. ^^MM^n,. INK-PMOTt^. jtH Aqvileja Oh. XXXV.] Aquileja: the Ditomo. 397 groined Roman fashion without ribs, and the vaultsare covered by early paintings of various the capitals (vid. Fig. 122) have a romanesquecharacter, which is not consistent with the theorythat the crypt was built in the fourth century, andDoints rather to the tenth or eleventh. The pointed arches of the nave arcades, which
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