. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. rea-sonably presume that a native Byzantine, loyal to the traditionsof his own art, would, even if his plan and construction were pre-scribed, have left a much stronger Byzantine impress on the generalscheme of decoration. The absence of mosaic^ — to mention only asingle feature — is of itself strong evidence against the presumptionthat the architect was a Greek. On the other hand, the presence ofByzantine sculpture in the decoration of the facade implies nothingmore than the employment by the arc
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. rea-sonably presume that a native Byzantine, loyal to the traditionsof his own art, would, even if his plan and construction were pre-scribed, have left a much stronger Byzantine impress on the generalscheme of decoration. The absence of mosaic^ — to mention only asingle feature — is of itself strong evidence against the presumptionthat the architect was a Greek. On the other hand, the presence ofByzantine sculpture in the decoration of the facade implies nothingmore than the employment by the architect of one or more of theGreek artists, of whom great numbers had found occupation in Italyfor three hundred years, and whose work is to be seen in numberlesschurches, of all styles, from the north to the south of the peninsula. At the death of Buschetto, w^hich occurred in the last years of theeleventh century, the church w^as nearly finished. But its actual ^ The mosaics of the apse and choir date only from the beginning of the fourteenthcentury. They have been attributed to Fig. 21G. Pisa. Niche in Apse Wall. 282 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY completion was accomplished under his successor Kainaldo, whoseems to have been associated with Buschetto from the first, andwhose work is commemorated in an inscription over the first arcade,which seems to indicate that it was he who finished the facade. Thechurch was comi)lcte in 1100, but its consecration was deferred until1118, when the ceremony was performed by Pope Gelesius II. The building of the campanile was delayed for another half cen-tury. Pisa had been riving: her attention to the enlarcre- The . Campanile ment of her boundaries, which had become too narrow forthe growing population. The cathedral and the founda-tions of the baptistery, which were laid in 1153-5-4, lay outside theold walls of the city. A new circuit of walls was determined on,which should enclose a broader area and take in the cathedral. Thework wa
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