Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . drawn andexecuted in the best style of the mosaicist. They havean excellent variety of face, and would seem to beportraits. In the storey below, occupying the place of a tri-forium, processions of saints, men on the south side,women on the north, corresponding to the division ofthe sexes of the congregation below, occupy the wholelength of the nave above the arcade. The figures arerelieved on a gold ground with dresses chiefly of whitein which mother of pearl is introduced, and are dividedby palm trees with green leaves and brown stems bearingred fruit.
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . drawn andexecuted in the best style of the mosaicist. They havean excellent variety of face, and would seem to beportraits. In the storey below, occupying the place of a tri-forium, processions of saints, men on the south side,women on the north, corresponding to the division ofthe sexes of the congregation below, occupy the wholelength of the nave above the arcade. The figures arerelieved on a gold ground with dresses chiefly of whitein which mother of pearl is introduced, and are dividedby palm trees with green leaves and brown stems bearingred fruit. Each figure carries a crown, and is named,and has a nimbus, defined by a line forming a circle someway from the head. In the draperies gold is shaded withbrown, and white with grey, and the white is definedagainst the gold on the shaded side by a black or darkbrown line. The ground on which they stand is The 22 female saints (Plate XXXII) on the north of thesaints uave procced eastward from the city of Classis towards. CH. xi] RAVENNA, GOTHIC PERIOD 165 the Virgin and Child who are enthroned at the far end. procession is headed by the three kings, who inextravagant attitudes are hastening to offer their are dressed in strange barbarian garb, with flowingmantles and embroidered trousers, the forbidden garmentsof the Goths. In their arrangement and attitudes theyresemble a little Roman sculpture in relief now fixed onthe wall of the church of S. Giovanni Battista, by which,or some similar antique, they may have been the opposite side the 25 male saints proceed from Processionthe town of Ravenna, where is a representation, probably saintsquite conventional, of the Palatium of Theodoric,towards a figure of our Lord seated between four procession is headed by S. Martin to whom thechurch was dedicated, and who is distinguished by apurple dress instead of the usual white. The figures in these processions are convention
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