Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . losed inan arcade, an old symbolic representation in which is suggestedour Lord Jesus dying on the cross, with His mother Mary onone side and the beloved disciple on the other, above whom arethe sun and the moon. This composition of the Roman Forumis among the richest preserved in Italy. Remnants of Italian-Byzantine style are to be found evenon the Palatine, near the sumptuous palace of the Csesars, andeven among the colossal ruins of the thermae of Caracalla. In the Lateran Museum, be-sides th
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . losed inan arcade, an old symbolic representation in which is suggestedour Lord Jesus dying on the cross, with His mother Mary onone side and the beloved disciple on the other, above whom arethe sun and the moon. This composition of the Roman Forumis among the richest preserved in Italy. Remnants of Italian-Byzantine style are to be found evenon the Palatine, near the sumptuous palace of the Csesars, andeven among the colossal ruins of the thermae of Caracalla. In the Lateran Museum, be-sides those already cited, thereare several others, the mostnoteworthy of which is aparapet placed in the middleof the great staircase tliatleads to the lapidary is rich in knot-works thatcompose a cross enclosed in acircle among doves and rosesand other plants. The cloister-well at theLateran is not the only onepreserved in Rome. Thereare three others equally cy-lindrical, sculptured in the same Italian-Byzantine style. Oneof these is seen in front of the church of S. John at the Latin m^. Fia. 97.—Mouth of a Well at the Office ofthe Minister of Agriculture, Eome—Endof the Vlllth Century. 192 Gate, enriched by spirals in the Byzantine manner, and with aninscription which mentions a certain Stephen as author of thesculptures ; it is the only sculptors name that monuments ofthis style have preserved for us. In the vestibule of the Artistic Industrial Museum, andat the entrance of the office of the Agricultural, Industrial,and Commercial Ministry, the other two wells are fundamental idea of their decoration is in each case thesame—that is to say, a row of five little arcades supported bycoarse little pillars and crowned by rampant caulicules. Butin the first, which is very rich, the usual crosses are in-scribed between roses and palms; in the other, on thecontrary, are only rude and simple palms. The reader must not believe that I assign to the ninthcentu
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