Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 76. —Capital in the Fieramosca Palace,Capua—Vlllth Century,. Fig. 77.—Capital in the Museum atCapua—VTITth Century. assigned to the eighth cen-tury works that belong totlie ninth, and which weshall soon examine. In the Christian museumof the Lateran, at the footof the great staircase, Ifound a frieze with spirals,withes and dr}^ leaves, ani-mals and fantastic monstersof rugged forms. In themidst of the staircase thatleads to the lapidarygalleries, there is a rect-angular slab, with a greatL
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 76. —Capital in the Fieramosca Palace,Capua—Vlllth Century,. Fig. 77.—Capital in the Museum atCapua—VTITth Century. assigned to the eighth cen-tury works that belong totlie ninth, and which weshall soon examine. In the Christian museumof the Lateran, at the footof the great staircase, Ifound a frieze with spirals,withes and dr}^ leaves, ani-mals and fantastic monstersof rugged forms. In themidst of the staircase thatleads to the lapidarygalleries, there is a rect-angular slab, with a greatLatin cross on it adornedby braids, which from theirfineness and the fact thatthere is a bead in everyrow, in the manner fre-quently characteristic of theGreeks in the eighth cen-tury, seems to me to be aGreek work of that other little crosses ofvarious dimensions, someenriched like the largerone by very minute braids,others in low relief andsmooth, occupy the lateralspaces between inscriptionsin the Armenian Latin inscription atthe foot of the cross waswithout doubt added in thetwelfth century. Such arethe very few works in Rome 11 l
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