Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 84.—Capital of the Portico of , Eome— 772-795. T76 into the pavement of the left nave, scnlptnred with squaresformed of knotted osiers, filled up with g?rape^*, loaves, littlepalms and roses. A small pilaster, with rough rounds of leaves,after the Byzantine style, now serves for a staircase to one ofthe doors, that forms a passage from the neighhouring monasteryto the kitchen garden ; and, huilt into the north wall of thesame one sees two long friezes in the same sty
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 84.—Capital of the Portico of , Eome— 772-795. T76 into the pavement of the left nave, scnlptnred with squaresformed of knotted osiers, filled up with g?rape^*, loaves, littlepalms and roses. A small pilaster, with rough rounds of leaves,after the Byzantine style, now serves for a staircase to one ofthe doors, that forms a passage from the neighhouring monasteryto the kitchen garden ; and, huilt into the north wall of thesame one sees two long friezes in the same style with gyresof vine-hranches enclosing rugged -??^s^^ ~^iTi-jf *i ^•^^ .^raW* Fig. 85.—Mouth of the Well in the Lateran Cloister, Eome—End of the Vlllth Century. According to Anastasius, the church of S. Laurence-in-Lucina was also rebuilt hy Adrian I., and six columns and twoantse still remain of the old external portico. The capitals olthese last imitate in their ensemble the Corinthian forms; and,although the leaves are rough and plain, like those of S. Maria-in-Cosmedin, yet they are in vigorous, full, and almost exag-gerated relief. The capitals of the six columns, on the contrary, 177 are Ionic, and, though rugged, compare to great advantnge withthose of S. Saha. They present a sculptured champignon, andthe vohites are ornamented witli many spirals; here at least thebit of intaglio mitigates the roughness of the chiselling. We read in Anastasius that Adrian I., among many othersecular constructions, restored and embellished the antiquePatriarchal residence near S, John Lateran, that is to say thePapal residence of
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