Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . to last: in the ogee arches of the windows anddoors ; in the strange Arabian-looking tester over thepulpit at Grado ; in the picturesque decoration withinlaid plaques of the Palazzo Dario, built in the early daysof the Renaissance. These are all features peculiar toVenice and the countries over which she ruled, and seemto show that she always looked east rather than west, asin the days when she professed her adherence to theking of the Romans at Byzantium. The Cathedral of Torcello on an island in the lagune, Torceiio(Fig. 52) founded originally in the 7
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . to last: in the ogee arches of the windows anddoors ; in the strange Arabian-looking tester over thepulpit at Grado ; in the picturesque decoration withinlaid plaques of the Palazzo Dario, built in the early daysof the Renaissance. These are all features peculiar toVenice and the countries over which she ruled, and seemto show that she always looked east rather than west, asin the days when she professed her adherence to theking of the Romans at Byzantium. The Cathedral of Torcello on an island in the lagune, Torceiio(Fig. 52) founded originally in the 7th century, was alteredin 864, when the eastern apses and the tribune with thecrypt below were built, and again in 1001-8 when thenave was reconstructed with the use of the old capitalsand other materials. Close by is the interesting littlechurch of S. Fosca, said to have been once a basilican s. Foscachurch, ending with three apses, and to have beenre-modelled in 1008 to a Byzantine plan, and prepared * See Cattaneo. 236 VENICE CH. XV. I I I i
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