Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . lly attracted, and it Avas very early intro-duced even in Eavenna, where the monogramsof Christ, lambs, peacocks, doves, palms, crosses,or vine-branches are seen to cover the niajoiityof the fronts of sarcophagi, the parapets andambos of churches, and generally the caj)italsof columns. But if in the sixth century the figure beganto be neglected through partiality for symbolismand rich ornamentation, in the seventh it wasnecessarily abandoned, thanks to the absoluteunskilfulness of the sculptors.
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . lly attracted, and it Avas very early intro-duced even in Eavenna, where the monogramsof Christ, lambs, peacocks, doves, palms, crosses,or vine-branches are seen to cover the niajoiityof the fronts of sarcophagi, the parapets andambos of churches, and generally the caj)italsof columns. But if in the sixth century the figure beganto be neglected through partiality for symbolismand rich ornamentation, in the seventh it wasnecessarily abandoned, thanks to the absoluteunskilfulness of the sculptors. The ambo of and John and Paul is the last sculptured work i^T^^l^vaof the Lombard era by Italian hands, and of i^£:^-]^M|certain date, in which the human figure appears. j^s^---^ Let us next examine a sarcojihagus of some person unknownin S. Apollinaris-in-Classe, the sculptures of which, with theexception of two little pillars at the extremities of the front andof the small arches of the flanks added in the ninth century,fully accord with the end of the sixth century or the beginning. 31 of the seventh. The front view gives us, under a meagre cornice,a cross enclosed by a crown of olives with awkward ribbons
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