History of mediæval art . Fig. 190.—Plan and System of the Cathedral of Modena. ance of the artistic methods of the East that the principal churchof Venice, S. Marco,* should be in the Byzantine manner, and evendeserves to be considered as one of the most important monumentsof that style. The first two constructions, referable to the yearsbetween 830 and 864, and between 976 and 1008, were, it is true,basilical. It cannot be determined in how far the Lombardic struct-ures of the neighboring Friuli and of Milan were of influence upon * G. e L. Kreutz, La Basilica di S. Marco in Venezia. 1843 sq
History of mediæval art . Fig. 190.—Plan and System of the Cathedral of Modena. ance of the artistic methods of the East that the principal churchof Venice, S. Marco,* should be in the Byzantine manner, and evendeserves to be considered as one of the most important monumentsof that style. The first two constructions, referable to the yearsbetween 830 and 864, and between 976 and 1008, were, it is true,basilical. It cannot be determined in how far the Lombardic struct-ures of the neighboring Friuli and of Milan were of influence upon * G. e L. Kreutz, La Basilica di S. Marco in Venezia. 1843 sq. 21 322 ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. these edifices, which may have owed quite as many of their peculiarcharacteristics to the models naturally presented by Ravenna. Theaddition of the transepts and the introduction of domes in the placeof horizontal wooden ceilings are probably referable to the recon-struction made between 1052 and 1071. The effects of these alter-ations upon the general arrangement are to be se
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