Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . f the Greekartists. In one, au ingenious net-workof woven fillets, figures a cross in acircle ; in the other, a very elegant inter-laced osier is wedded to palm-leaves. Fig. 14G.—Bas-relief existing in These two patterns are framed bv a the Baptistery of S Mark of the . ?!: Partecipazi— 829. ring artistically cut out. It would have been imprudent to judge the Byzantine artof the ninth century by the few fragments of Grado, but not bythe large number offered to us in the basilica of S. Mark.
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . f the Greekartists. In one, au ingenious net-workof woven fillets, figures a cross in acircle ; in the other, a very elegant inter-laced osier is wedded to palm-leaves. Fig. 14G.—Bas-relief existing in These two patterns are framed bv a the Baptistery of S Mark of the . ?!: Partecipazi— 829. ring artistically cut out. It would have been imprudent to judge the Byzantine artof the ninth century by the few fragments of Grado, but not bythe large number offered to us in the basilica of S. Mark. Thatwhich encourages us to do so without fear is, most of all, thegreat variety of forms and elements that are there presentedto us; hence the probability that their authors came directlyfrom the principal artistic home of the East, that is to say fromConstantinople, and finally the fact that their style is found inperfect harmony with the numerous sculptures that are stillpreserved in Constantinople and Athens. The reader mayconvince himself of this by looking at the photographs of the. 295 iUK-iciit catludial and of tlie nmscuin at Athens, or the works ofSrtlzemherg, Pul^^lier, and Castellazzi. The most impartialjudgment, then, that one can pronounce is that the Byzantineart of the ninth century is, in perfection, nowise superior to thatof the preceding century, insomuch that it would certainly nothe an exaggeration to apply to it the epithet of harljaric. Thisharbarism applies especially to the representations of animals(for human hgures are absolutely wanting in it), wherein form,
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