Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 15. by Studius in 463. It has the same pulvinated frieze ofdelicate undercut Byzantine foliage, now nearly all brokenaway, but retaining enough to show what it was, and thesame cornice above. The corona has disappeared fromthe profile, and the modillions and other features are sosmothered with ovolos, beads and reels, and such-likeconventional ornaments that their architectural proprietysuffers. The modillions in particular are little more thanlumps of confused ornament. The intercolumniations ofthis portico are now filled with sashes, but originall
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 15. by Studius in 463. It has the same pulvinated frieze ofdelicate undercut Byzantine foliage, now nearly all brokenaway, but retaining enough to show what it was, and thesame cornice above. The corona has disappeared fromthe profile, and the modillions and other features are sosmothered with ovolos, beads and reels, and such-likeconventional ornaments that their architectural proprietysuffers. The modillions in particular are little more thanlumps of confused ornament. The intercolumniations ofthis portico are now filled with sashes, but originally they =^w^ ?^??l^ w h-1 (1. -?•ij -* / o ^w g , V / .1 H , ,? ? ^ -< H (Ti ^ ?? .;., o. H 5>^^i^Y Salonica CH. v] SALONICA 69 had marble door-cases fitted between the pillars, two ofwhich exist, and the part over the lintel would have beenopen, up to the entablature. The building was preceded by an atrium, of whichthe walls partly remain, and contain marble door-casesnow blocked up, one of which, if I understood myTurkish informant aright, is credited with saintly ifnot miraculous properties. But coincidently with these basilican churches the s. George,dome made its appearance in the European provincesof the Eastern Empire. The church of S. George atSalonica (Fig. 16), now the Orta Sultan Osman Djamisi,is a round church with a choir and apse projected east-ward, and the nave is covered by a dome with a spanof 80 ft. The plan and the dome, however, are bothrather Roman than Byzantine. The wall of the roundpart is of immense thickness, and contains, besides alofty arch opening to the choir, seven arched recessesunder barrel vaults over which are round-headed
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