Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . f the Church of SS. Fehx andFortunat, near Vicenza.* Aurona of Milan, now destroyed. The foot of the pilaster alsomerits our attention, for it presents a Lomhard profile as pure as ??? I owe the design of this plan to the obliging kindness of Chevalier FlaminioAuti, of Vicenza. 269 tliiit of S. Aiiil)roisc, and sIioavs at tlio angles of the pliiitli l)olowthe demi-columns a sort of buttress in the form of a smallloaf, which is an essential characteristic of the Lombard style. Inthe twelfth centu
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . f the Church of SS. Fehx andFortunat, near Vicenza.* Aurona of Milan, now destroyed. The foot of the pilaster alsomerits our attention, for it presents a Lomhard profile as pure as ??? I owe the design of this plan to the obliging kindness of Chevalier FlaminioAuti, of Vicenza. 269 tliiit of S. Aiiil)roisc, and sIioavs at tlio angles of the pliiitli l)olowthe demi-columns a sort of buttress in the form of a smallloaf, which is an essential characteristic of the Lombard style. Inthe twelfth century they were transformed into a thousand varied and fantastic ornaments andfigures, which the Gothic styleinherited later on, and duringa short time even that of theRenaissance. of Yicenzaoffers, then, the most ancientkno^^?n example of pilastersalternating with columns, themost ancient specimen of clus-tered pillars, the most ancientcapitals of a freely Lombardcharacter, and the most ancientmodel of bases furnished withbuttresses. It is consequentlya monument of the hiuhest im-. Fig. 135.—Capital of S. Ft-lix, noai-Yicenza— 985. portance, and the most precious example of transition fromthe barbaric Italian-Byzantine to the Romanic; style. If one was tempted to believe that that which I attribute tothe 3ear 985, belongs, on the contrary, to the twelfth century, thecrypt and exterior of the apsis, work incontestably of that century,afford us several fragments which have been used as oldmaterials, and suggest, evidently, the Italian-Byzantine style,and the same chisel which has sculptured the capitals of thecolumns and of the pilasters above them. Such are some piecesof small pilasters covered with interlacing, with roses and honey-suckle ornaments which must have belonged to the old choir, andfive capitals, of medium dimensions, which are the probableremains of ancient ciboria. The three in the best preservationare of a uniform design, decorated with stiff volute
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