. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )l(i the provaliMico oftlic IW/antino spirit inthe lUcoration has 1)l-Ioino nearly the Agios Sergius(the cliureh of 8S. 8er-gius and Baechiis), thelower eoluiuns have aconvex bloek capitalvery like those of ^ The upper col-umns have an Ioniccapital crushed nnderthe weight of a trape-zoidal stilt-block elabo-rately and gracefullycarved (Fig. 154),wiiile the entablature. Fig. 155. S. Sofia. Capital and Spandril of UpperArcade. of the lower order is covered with decoration, much a
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )l(i the provaliMico oftlic IW/antino spirit inthe lUcoration has 1)l-Ioino nearly the Agios Sergius(the cliureh of 8S. 8er-gius and Baechiis), thelower eoluiuns have aconvex bloek capitalvery like those of ^ The upper col-umns have an Ioniccapital crushed nnderthe weight of a trape-zoidal stilt-block elabo-rately and gracefullycarved (Fig. 154),wiiile the entablature. Fig. 155. S. Sofia. Capital and Spandril of UpperArcade. of the lower order is covered with decoration, much as in the porticoof the Agios Johannes, mentioned above. It is, as we should expect, in Santa Sofia that the richness ofsculptural decoration reaches its height; but even here the sculptureacanthus still forms the motive of the ornament, and it is °^ ^- ^°^*only by its freer treatment and the character of the forms to whichit is applied that the style of decoration departs from the few instances are seen of the basket capital which is so commonin the buildings of Italy, where the hand of the Byzantine sculptor isfelt, and only here and there a stilt-block is employed. The decora-tion is extremely abundant and rich, but much less varied in designthan is the case in later buildings, the classic principle of continuitystill apparently governing the architects. Thus the lower and uppercapitals are all similar throughout, a convex block, round at thebottom, square at
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