Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . to the exact thickness of the wallabove, but project slightly beyond the springingstone of the arch eastward and westward. The archesare stilted and semichcular. Above may still be seenin the wall next the central nave the old clerestoryof small round-headed windows, though they are now blocked, but thoseof the opposite wallhave been destroyedto make way for largemodern nave nor aisleswere designed for vault-ing, but were coveredwith wooden roofs. Ofthe apse and its mo-saics I will speak by
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . to the exact thickness of the wallabove, but project slightly beyond the springingstone of the arch eastward and westward. The archesare stilted and semichcular. Above may still be seenin the wall next the central nave the old clerestoryof small round-headed windows, though they are now blocked, but thoseof the opposite wallhave been destroyedto make way for largemodern nave nor aisleswere designed for vault-ing, but were coveredwith wooden roofs. Ofthe apse and its mo-saics I will speak by-and-bye. The southern church1 -s of S. Giusto has in part a far more decidedlyByzantine characterthan the northern. Its apse is surrounded with awall arcading of five arches springing from columnsof beautiful breccia, with white marble capitals ofa thoroughly Byzantine type (Fig. ti8). The twonorthern columns of the dome belong to the four-teenth century work of the central nave ; but theother two at the south-east and south-west cornersare original, and have capitals which are rude. -tig- 117- Ch. XXXIIT.] Trieste: the Duomo. 359 versions of the Corinthian, and support impostblocks of which one is a fragment of an old classiccornice with modillions. Both these capitals aretoo small for their columns^. The transept wascovered with a barrel vault, as was apparently theaisle itself. The dome rests on pendentives, and is
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