Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . of animals or menalmost as religiously as the Moslem, and that in the fewcases when they attempted it their efforts were rarelysuccessful. An exception must be made in favour of some finecapitals at S. Marks with figures of rams at the anglesinstead of volutes (Plate LXII c). The completion of the decoration with marble liningsand mosaic was slowly effected during the next 200 years ;the present domes date from the 13th century, and it wasnot till the 14th century that the gables were crownedwith those splendid riotous crockettings which offend thePurist
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . of animals or menalmost as religiously as the Moslem, and that in the fewcases when they attempted it their efforts were rarelysuccessful. An exception must be made in favour of some finecapitals at S. Marks with figures of rams at the anglesinstead of volutes (Plate LXII c). The completion of the decoration with marble liningsand mosaic was slowly effected during the next 200 years ;the present domes date from the 13th century, and it wasnot till the 14th century that the gables were crownedwith those splendid riotous crockettings which offend thePurist, but deserve to be classed among the triumphs ofdecorative sculpture (Plate LXII I).s. Marks In S. Marks we have on Italian soil a purely Byzan- tine^design tine church, that would be at home in had no imitators, even in Venice, for the basilican typeheld its own in Italy and no more real domes were erectedthere till the time of Brunelleschi. But in the detail ofsculptured ornament Greek taste survived at Venice till. CH. xv] VENICE 235 a late period of the republic. There are several palaces otheron the Grand Canal with fronts of the nth and 12th cen- work\t^turies, perhaps even later, which are thoroughly Byzantine ^^•^^in style. Those who like myself were fortunate enoughto know the Fondaco dei Turchi before its lamentablerestoration can realize from that, ruined though it was,what Venice must have been like in the days of the blindhero Dandolo. The churches of Torcello and Muranoshow Byzantine influence, both in plan and in detail;and on many a well head in the courts at Venice theGreek acanthus and Greek ornament can be traced toa comparatively late period, and have even deceivedantiquaries \ One may perhaps, without being toofanciful, trace an oriental feeling in Venetian architecturefrom first to last: in the ogee arches of the windows anddoors ; in the strange Arabian-looking tester over thepulpit at Grado ; in the picturesque decoration withinlaid
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