Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . morebarbarous Latin:— + IN N (omine) DNI lESV XRISTI DE BONISSANCTI IVANNES BAPTESTE EDIFICATVS ESTHANG CIVORIVS SVB TEMPORE DOMNO NOS-TRO LIOPRANDO REGE ET VB (venerabile) PATERNO(pater nostro) DOMNICO EPESCOPO ET COSTODESEIVS VV (venerabiles) VIDALIANO ET TANCOL PRES-BITERIS ET REFOL GASTALDIO GONDELME IN-DIGNVS DIACONVS :— VRSVS MAGESTER CVM DISCEPOLIS SVISIWINTINO ET irV^IANO EBIFICAVET HANG CIVO-RIVM VERGONDVS TEODAL FOSCARI. It clearly follows from these inscriptions that the c
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . morebarbarous Latin:— + IN N (omine) DNI lESV XRISTI DE BONISSANCTI IVANNES BAPTESTE EDIFICATVS ESTHANG CIVORIVS SVB TEMPORE DOMNO NOS-TRO LIOPRANDO REGE ET VB (venerabile) PATERNO(pater nostro) DOMNICO EPESCOPO ET COSTODESEIVS VV (venerabiles) VIDALIANO ET TANCOL PRES-BITERIS ET REFOL GASTALDIO GONDELME IN-DIGNVS DIACONVS :— VRSVS MAGESTER CVM DISCEPOLIS SVISIWINTINO ET irV^IANO EBIFICAVET HANG CIVO-RIVM VERGONDVS TEODAL FOSCARI. It clearly follows from these inscriptions that the ciboriumwas erected during the reign of Luitprand ; and if we reflectthat he ascended the throne the same year as Bishop Dominicdied, we shall lind that this work Avas executed precisely in 712. 7 98 Nearly all writers about medieval Italian archeology havenoticed these columns, perhaps because it was not difficult tosee them in Verona, and in the works of jMaftei and Venturiwhich portrayed them ; but none of them, so iar as I know,chose to go to Valpolicella and walk up the steep hill where. Fig. 29.—Ciborium of S. Georges of Valpolicella— 712. rises the little town and the church of S. George to see ifnothing else remained of the old tabernacle. I would and didgo there, and by good chance found rich repayment for mytrouble. That is to say, I found the other two little columnswith their capitals and three rich archivolts with extremitiesmore or less mutilated, which composed the upper part of theciborium.* Column and capital measure little less than a That intelligent and courteous gentleman, the Provost Don Gerolamo Arcozzi,assured me that the fourth archivolt is walled up in the central apsis, and gave mehope that one day or other it would be taken out and reunited to the other fragments,and replaced as formerly in the church. 99 metre in height, and the space between is not move thaneighty-five centimetres, so that we ought not to imagine thatthe ciborium was pla
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