. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ^£^^^^^^^^$^:^^^^^^=^^. Fig-. 300. Greek Chapel at Malvagna. lavish manner with gold and color, the borders of the panels bearingArabic inscriptions in the Cufic character. The interior surfaces,with the exception of the nave ceiling, are everywhere flat; thearches are without mouldings, the clerestory and apses without beltor cornice. But these flat surfaces are decorated throughout thechurch with the utmost splendor. The walls are lined to the heightof fourteen feet with plates of marble and por
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ^£^^^^^^^^$^:^^^^^^=^^. Fig-. 300. Greek Chapel at Malvagna. lavish manner with gold and color, the borders of the panels bearingArabic inscriptions in the Cufic character. The interior surfaces,with the exception of the nave ceiling, are everywhere flat; thearches are without mouldings, the clerestory and apses without beltor cornice. But these flat surfaces are decorated throughout thechurch with the utmost splendor. The walls are lined to the heightof fourteen feet with plates of marble and porphyry, in panelsenclosed within borders of beautiful mosaic in geometrical patterns,with a double frieze above. (Fig. 302.) Above this, the walls, arches, domes, and vaults, even to thesoffits of the arches, are covered with gold mosaics of the greatestvariety and beauty, the figures having much expressiveness anddignity, without the rigid formality of most of the Byzantine of these mosaics are doubtless contemporary with the chapel,but the greater part were added during the reign of William L,the son o
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