Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . -tig- 117- Ch. XXXIIT.] Trieste: the Duomo. 359 versions of the Corinthian, and support impostblocks of which one is a fragment of an old classiccornice with modillions. Both these capitals aretoo small for their columns^. The transept wascovered with a barrel vault, as was apparently theaisle itself. The dome rests on pendentives, and is. Fig. 118. arcaded inside and out, but the external arcading isnow enclosed within the church, the ceiling havingbeen raised much above the original level by thegreat str
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . -tig- 117- Ch. XXXIIT.] Trieste: the Duomo. 359 versions of the Corinthian, and support impostblocks of which one is a fragment of an old classiccornice with modillions. Both these capitals aretoo small for their columns^. The transept wascovered with a barrel vault, as was apparently theaisle itself. The dome rests on pendentives, and is. Fig. 118. arcaded inside and out, but the external arcading isnow enclosed within the church, the ceiling havingbeen raised much above the original level by thegreat structural revolutionof the fourteenth original nave was only four arches in length, ^ The disproportion between the diameter of the capitals andtheir columns is, I think, partly due to the stucco imitation ofmarble with which the latter have been coated, and by which theirsubstance is incieased. 360 Trieste: the Duomo. [Ch. xxxill. and it has lost all the original columns on the northside except one which has the usual impost rest were replaced by new in the fourteenthcentury. The three old columns of the south sideremain unaltered; their capitals, which are toosmall for their shafts, are distant imitations of theCorinthian, and precisely similar in character to thecapitals of the northern basilica (vid. Fig. 117), andthey carry impost blocks which exactly fit thespringer of the arch above. The rest o
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