. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. rolland a cable moulding, within which are threepointed lights and two circles containing quatre-foils, the whole arranged as a kind of plate round arch has the fault common to all wideopenings in a circular wall of seeming distortedfrom every point of view but one, which point is, inthis case, an impossible one, the street being toonarrow. This window is a later insertion, cuttingaway as it does at the crown the original corbeltable, and in spite of the early look of the scroll-work it can sc
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. rolland a cable moulding, within which are threepointed lights and two circles containing quatre-foils, the whole arranged as a kind of plate round arch has the fault common to all wideopenings in a circular wall of seeming distortedfrom every point of view but one, which point is, inthis case, an impossible one, the street being toonarrow. This window is a later insertion, cuttingaway as it does at the crown the original corbeltable, and in spite of the early look of the scroll-work it can scarcely be older than the thirteenthcentury. The string-course below it is of very fineand original design. Both nave and aisles are now Ch, XXIII.] Cattaro: the 43 covered by a single span roof, but in the space be-tween the aisle vault and the roof may be seen anarched cornice where the eaves of the nave wouldhave been, which was evidently meant to appearabove a lower lean-to roof Below this cornice maybe traced a blocked three-light opening, which once i--^^ <)«|^ ri^i,. g- 74- formed a triforium looking into the nave. Thisexists only in the eastern bay, another proof thatthis bay alone remains in its original condition. Of the church of Andreacci Saracenis nothingremains but the head of a doorway, now set uponmodern jambs (Fig. 74), in the sacristy, which bearson the lintel the inscription : ANDR£e5C{ /\D HONOREH SGCIGPiVMa-NAfeREM^ Fig- 75 44 Cattaro: the Duomo. [Ch. XXIII. But though his building has disappeared his ownremains and those of his wife Maria, by a strangeaccident, were discovered when the road to thenorth of the church was being formed in 1840, andtheir sarcophagus now stands in the north following is the inscription, which it will beobserved has the square 0 which occurs in the epi-taph of Archbishop John of Kavenna at Spalato ^ : -hi n/vPNi ^sniv5j^ m ba+m aki a ew ncAvi^Y5AKCA•lsrAm^gyI/vmv^I^/IPJAtvi^^M^^r^^ILE5f7T^^^ PR M^sfeCATO
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