Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 7.—Capitals of the ancient Ciliorinm of S. Clement, Eome— 51-1-523. E. S DNI, and came to the well-founded conclusion that thesaid columns and architrave must have formed part of theciborium of the antique basilica erected during the time of PopeHormisda (514-523) by that priest Giovanni called Mercurius,who was afterwards Poj)e Giovanni II. Well, tliose twocolumns arabesqued with reliefs like ivy twining round them,are without doubt Roman, but the capitals above them presentthe Byzanti
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 7.—Capitals of the ancient Ciliorinm of S. Clement, Eome— 51-1-523. E. S DNI, and came to the well-founded conclusion that thesaid columns and architrave must have formed part of theciborium of the antique basilica erected during the time of PopeHormisda (514-523) by that priest Giovanni called Mercurius,who was afterwards Poj)e Giovanni II. Well, tliose twocolumns arabesqued with reliefs like ivy twining round them,are without doubt Roman, but the capitals above them presentthe Byzantine style in its purest originality, because theyare made like baskets, decorated with meanders in open-work,and with crosses and doves under their abacus. It is plainthat such conceits could only issue from Greek chisels. But that is not all. This bappy discovery guided De Rossito another not less important: it led him to the just suspicion 40 that many of the sculptured slabs composing the chancel ofthe choiv of the actual basilica, which bear the monogram of aGiovanni, and which had till
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