. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. -Fig. l-SO. S. Giovanni in BorgoPavia. Capital of Nave. 192 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY .... .. Fig. lol. Parma. Baptistery. In S. Giovanni in Borgo, atPavia, nearly contenij)orary withS. Michele and S. Pietro, thesculpture shows, both in designand execution, a decided church is destroyed, but someof the nave capitals are 129 shows a troop of Lom-bard horsemen, with spears andshields, clad in helmets and coatsof mail, advancing to meet eachother, — a valuable historicalrecord.
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. -Fig. l-SO. S. Giovanni in BorgoPavia. Capital of Nave. 192 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY .... .. Fig. lol. Parma. Baptistery. In S. Giovanni in Borgo, atPavia, nearly contenij)orary withS. Michele and S. Pietro, thesculpture shows, both in designand execution, a decided church is destroyed, but someof the nave capitals are 129 shows a troop of Lom-bard horsemen, with spears andshields, clad in helmets and coatsof mail, advancing to meet eachother, — a valuable historicalrecord. In Fig. 130, perhaps themost remarkable fragment of all,a female figure at the angle ofa capital, with flowing hair, and more natural modelling than weoften find in these sculptures, is giving suck to two serpents. The character of the sculpture of the capitals is singiUarly consist-ent through successive centuries. In the cathedral of Modena,begun in 1099, and in that of Parma, a hundred years later, there isno essential variationfrom what we have seenin the churches ofMilan and Pavia be-longing to the ninthand tenth centuries. AtModena, for instance,some of the capitals ofthe
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