Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . h enclose the choir are carved withthe same interlacing patterns and rude figures as thosementioned above at Cividale. They have evidently beena good deal misplaced, and some are set wrongly. Oneamong them bears the Griffin with waving tail thatappears in Etruscan tombs at Corneto, here set wrongway up. One familiar subject is a pair of crosses undertwo arches : both cross and arch are enriched with a 2l8 TUSCANY [CH, XIV Toscaneiia guilloche Of With flutlngs, and the arch has a rude kind ofs. Fietro ^,(,|.gj-jj^g found it. Two pyramidal leaves or tre
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . h enclose the choir are carved withthe same interlacing patterns and rude figures as thosementioned above at Cividale. They have evidently beena good deal misplaced, and some are set wrongly. Oneamong them bears the Griffin with waving tail thatappears in Etruscan tombs at Corneto, here set wrongway up. One familiar subject is a pair of crosses undertwo arches : both cross and arch are enriched with a 2l8 TUSCANY [CH, XIV Toscaneiia guilloche Of With flutlngs, and the arch has a rude kind ofs. Fietro ^,(,|.gj-jj^g found it. Two pyramidal leaves or treesoccupy the two spaces right and left of the stem of thecross, and rosettes or other ornaments fill the two spacesabove the cross arm (Fig-. 47). This device occurs notonly here at Toscaneiia, but with little variety in thechurches of SS. Apostoli and S. Sabina at Rome, atTorcello and Pola; another instance of the intercom-munication of art and artists in early times and at greatdistances. Both internally and externally the clerestory. Fig. 47. TOSCANELLA. walls are decorated with blank arches, of which a few arepierced with narrow lights. The aisles have arcadedcornices under the eaves, generally springing from littlecorbels, but at every third or fourth arch carried down thewall with a narrow pilaster strip like those in our EnglishSaxon churches of the 8th or loth century, such asCorhampton or Earls Barton. In the clerestory thepilaster strip occurs at every arch, to which it forms a 1 V. Rivoira, I. Ch. 3; my Dalmaiia, Vols. I. and HI.; Brindley andWeatherley, Plate 32. Plate L VI
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