Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . n thesame fabric; and,in fact, this is thecase with our little church. Certainly the man who raisedthe four pilastersand curved thearcades of the centre must have ^^ ^9 ^M had the idea of WM Sl H[ a church in theshape of a Greekcross with equalarms. Now whyis the trace of the perimetral walls, pj^ 48.—Plan of S, Teuteria at Verona—Ylllth and rectangular instead Xiith Century. of square, and wdiy does the end of the apsis enlarge itself much more thanthe central arcades, producing a sort of abnor
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . n thesame fabric; and,in fact, this is thecase with our little church. Certainly the man who raisedthe four pilastersand curved thearcades of the centre must have ^^ ^9 ^M had the idea of WM Sl H[ a church in theshape of a Greekcross with equalarms. Now whyis the trace of the perimetral walls, pj^ 48.—Plan of S, Teuteria at Verona—Ylllth and rectangular instead Xiith Century. of square, and wdiy does the end of the apsis enlarge itself much more thanthe central arcades, producing a sort of abnormal and em-barrassed vault in the space that precedes it, and, therefore,on the one corresponding to it? Without doubt, because theperimetral wall and the apsis Avere built before the erection ofthe central pilasters. When this radical transformation occurredis nearly indicated by the Neo-Byzantine character of thepresent edifice, and it is also indicated by what Biancolinihimself says, namely, that after the bodies of the two martyredsaints were found, in lltiU, the church was newly consc-. 127 crated by the Eisliop Ognibene. Therefore either the restorationgave occasion to the discovery oi- the discovery occasioned therestoration. Tlie old church of the eightli century was then a simple little basilica divided ;-:iK
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