Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . -. As in Italy, so also in Greece, students haveattributed to this period works that should rather have beea identified with theeleventh centurj-. 83 witli bunches of grapes sculptured in a barbarous manner. Inthe two lateral inter-columns are a lamb and a ram, equallyprimitive, at the foot of two pomegranate-trees ; in the frontonsare palms between doves, and, in the upper part, other vine andpomegranate branches. The style and the character of everydetail of this work plainly proclaim it to be
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . -. As in Italy, so also in Greece, students haveattributed to this period works that should rather have beea identified with theeleventh centurj-. 83 witli bunches of grapes sculptured in a barbarous manner. Inthe two lateral inter-columns are a lamb and a ram, equallyprimitive, at the foot of two pomegranate-trees ; in the frontonsare palms between doves, and, in the upper part, other vine andpomegranate branches. The style and the character of everydetail of this work plainly proclaim it to be from Grecianhands; from its unskilful chiselling and incorrect and inelegantdesign, we perceive that it is unworthy of the tilth and sixth. Pic,. 18.—Balustrade of the Galleries of S. TMark at Venice—Vllth Century. centuries. That it cannot belong to the eighth or succeedingones, we shall see hereafter when we learn to recognise theByzantine art of those times ; therefore it can only belong tothe seventh century, that is to say to that period of decadencewhich prepared the style of the eighth century. But here in S. ^lark we have another work of sculpture,indubitably Byzantine, which is preserved in the Tesoro. It isthat marble seat ( cattedra ) which tradition declares to havebeen presented to the Patriarch of Giado, Primigenius, aboutthe year 630, by the Emperor Heraclius, on account of its beingsupposed to be the same as that on Avhicli the EvangelistS. Mark sat in Alexandria. Selvatico laughed at that piousbelief, and with his usual levity declared the cattedra to be awork of the tenth or eleventh century. 84 Several savants, versed in arcliseolog}^ (among whom I amglad to pay most homage to Rohault de Fleiuy), ha
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