Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . • • ??-,-? .. .... —^^^-^ Fig, G8.—Little Window of S. Saviour, Brescia—Vlllth Century. little coiivi X avcliivolt, wiy like tlioso \\v saw in llic mnsoumat Venice; a slal) of marble with a beaded cross amongstroses, palms, and tresses, and lastly a very important stonehollowed by two little arches supported by colonnettes, witharchivolts, capitals, and headings rich in ornaments and havinga band below with large and cnrious caps. It was mostprobably the base of the altar turned towards
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . • • ??-,-? .. .... —^^^-^ Fig, G8.—Little Window of S. Saviour, Brescia—Vlllth Century. little coiivi X avcliivolt, wiy like tlioso \\v saw in llic mnsoumat Venice; a slal) of marble with a beaded cross amongstroses, palms, and tresses, and lastly a very important stonehollowed by two little arches supported by colonnettes, witharchivolts, capitals, and headings rich in ornaments and havinga band below with large and cnrious caps. It was mostprobably the base of the altar turned towards the people, andthe two little windows, furnished with an iron giating, andcommunicating A\itli the ciypt, piobably rendeicd visible thetombs of the saints deposited there, exactly as on certainconfessions of clmrches in Rome. Pavia.—As we find these Greek artificers working in citiesof minor importance, and sometimes even in \illages, it is easy. SPIENDfTi^-X DlA5ACLi£^ j ssonv5D!cie^ y^DlLYBR^M£>^ IlACYNCTAfi>| = Fig. 69.—Tomb of Theodota, Pavia—Vlllth Century. to imagine how much more they must have worked in thecapital of the Lombard kingdom, Pavia ; but of the many Avorksthat they doubtless left there very few remain to be recorded,and they are some fronts of sarcophagi, more or less ovna- 154 mentcfl, existing in the ronitynrd of the IMalaspina that enclose the ashes of Teodota (that yictini of thebrutality of King Canibevto, who it appears died a nun in 720) *take precedence of all others. Here the connection with the sculptures of Cividale comesout most vividly. An elegant band with intertwined circles,alternately large and small, aiul filled up with rose-work, orleaves and bunches of grapes of a certain fineness and originality,forms a frame to the representations on the sides of the sarco-phagus. In the one we see tAvo roughly carved peacocks drink-ing at a vase, among roses, lilies, and braid
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