Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . belong to that epoch : theinternal arcades of the little chapels repose on little cornices cutinto braids and leafage of pure Italian-Byzantine style. Thesame may be said of the imposts of the vaults in the atrium,where antique lonic-Boman capitals, reversed, are obviouslyenriched by sculptures of 804. But all these details do not so well represent to us tlievalue of these artihcers as other works of sculpture that existoutside the cathedral or in the sacristy. The doorposts of thegreat door (wh
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . belong to that epoch : theinternal arcades of the little chapels repose on little cornices cutinto braids and leafage of pure Italian-Byzantine style. Thesame may be said of the imposts of the vaults in the atrium,where antique lonic-Boman capitals, reversed, are obviouslyenriched by sculptures of 804. But all these details do not so well represent to us tlievalue of these artihcers as other works of sculpture that existoutside the cathedral or in the sacristy. The doorposts of thegreat door (which Selvatico attrihutes to the fourth century)are splendidly rich with very various designs in spirals, circles,. Fig. 157.—Parapet of the Catheclial of Torcello—.\.u. S74. braidings, pearls and crosses, vigorously carved, and with asureness of eifect. and a certain grace, inherited from Grecianart. Of the same character is a mutilated parapet, which onesees set in the exterior, near the side door of the cathedral,together with other fragments, of divers epochs, and certainfragments of doorposts that adorn the lavaho of the capitals of the front portico, north of the baptistery,one adorned by rugged acanthus leaves, the other by caulicules 311 capriciously distrilmted. are coiiiicctcd. botli liv style and aj^ the preceding sculptures. At the same time as the cathedral, or shortly after, but bythe same workmen, nnist liave been liuilt oi rclmilt the adjoiningchurch of S. Fosca. \\liich then presented, ^\itliout doubt, theaspect of a little l)asilica \\ith three naves terminated by threeaj^sides. The two little lateral apsides, whose style difiers fromthat of the centre and t
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