. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. he fourth chapel on the left. They represent the FourEvangelists and the Four Doctors of the Church ; in thecentre is the Lamb with the Cross. These works havesuffered so much from repainting that they can no longerbe considered as Giottos in anything but their the chapel to the left of the choir is a mosaic pavementdating from 1213 representing scenes from the Third Crusade. We must not leave S. Giovanni Evangelista withoutnoting the great tower of the eleventh century whichovershadows it. It is contemporary with the greaterTorre Communale in
. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. he fourth chapel on the left. They represent the FourEvangelists and the Four Doctors of the Church ; in thecentre is the Lamb with the Cross. These works havesuffered so much from repainting that they can no longerbe considered as Giottos in anything but their the chapel to the left of the choir is a mosaic pavementdating from 1213 representing scenes from the Third Crusade. We must not leave S. Giovanni Evangelista withoutnoting the great tower of the eleventh century whichovershadows it. It is contemporary with the greaterTorre Communale in the Via Tredici Giugno. Nor shouldwe omit to visit the old house, the Casa Polentena, nearPorta Ursicina and the Casa Traversari in Via S. Vitale,grand old thirteenth-century houses of Dantes day, beforewe pass to examine what is left of the time of the Re-naissance in Ravenna. The Middle Age may be said to have come to an endin this lonely city with the advent of the Venetians in1441. Their first work was the fortification of the city. RAVENNA 33 when in 1457 they built the tremendous Rocca whose ruinswe still see. To them is also due the Piazza Maggiore inwhich they raised the two columns we know before thePalazza Comunale, bearing now, though not from of old,the statues of S. Apollinaris and S. Vitalis. But thePalazzo del Comune was entirely rebuilt by the Papalgovernment in 1681 and the Palazzo Governativo in Orologio Pubblico, dating from 1483, was transformedas we see it in 1785. The Portico Antico here would seemto have been built from the debris of the Arian church ofS. Andrea when the Venetians destroyed that church tomake room for their Rocca. But undoubtedly the greatest monument which theRenaissance has given us in Ravenna is the church of in Porto, built in 1553, when for nearly fifty yearsthe Canons Regular had been compelled to abandonS. Maria in Portofuori. Even this church has, however,suffered from restoration, and the fagade is a work of the
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