Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . without any intaglio. Thisdescrijition betokens such a simplicity of form and roughpoverty of details as to make us suspect that the basilicabelonged to the ninth century, and that its capitals werebrethren of the very rough ones of the cathedral. And thesuspicion almost becomes a certainty when we consider theremains of the co\er of the baptismal font, of which Kandlerwrites that it was hexagonal and formed by archivolts of marblesustained l)v columns. One of these archivolts, for the most \\ 2
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . without any intaglio. Thisdescrijition betokens such a simplicity of form and roughpoverty of details as to make us suspect that the basilicabelonged to the ninth century, and that its capitals werebrethren of the very rough ones of the cathedral. And thesuspicion almost becomes a certainty when we consider theremains of the co\er of the baptismal font, of which Kandlerwrites that it was hexagonal and formed by archivolts of marblesustained l)v columns. One of these archivolts, for the most \\ 214 part well preserved, presents, according to tlie same writer,a monogram ^\itli the letters A and E ; but from whatremains of it one sees that there \\ere three letters. A N , who had no idea of the style of the nuitli century,judged that the monogram re-ferred to Aiitoiiiits cplscdpii.^,whose See was in the hrsthalf of the sixth century; buthe is evidently in error, becausethe archivolts in the beautifulcomplicated and ingenious in- terwea\ings &^ with which theycovered, acknow-. l^^^ -•^^ liG. 110.—Fragment of Baptismal Fonts ledge the ninth century. The at Pola—ixth Centm-y. monogram must, therefore, refer to a bishop of that period, perhaps the already mentionedAndegiso—the only name that occurs in the vast gap existingin the series of Polan bishops of the ninth century. Among the Italian-Byzantine remains once appertainuigto the eathedral and bajitistery of Pola, there are also twomiddle-sized columns, with united capitals, said to have comefrom the celebrated suburban abbey of S. Maria of Canneto,which has now been destroyed. These capitals attractattention by the strangeness of their forms, which, in theirensemble, very roughly reproduce the Corinthian style, but indetail are adorned by certain incisions like caulicules andcertain very original Xs. They seem to have served forsome ciborium of the ninth century. To the same churchbelonged a stone on whi
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