Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . oman sculpture built in without any system orregularity. Relics of Roman sepulchral art formthe posts of the great west doorway, and numerousmonumental slabs of later ages are placed uprightagainst the lower part of the west wall. The strange rambling plan of the interior seemsat first to have no system or reasonableness, but thefour rows of columns and arches, and the five aisleswith the chapels beyond them, produce an eflect ofintricacy and mystery that are not without a certaincharm. The explanation of
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . oman sculpture built in without any system orregularity. Relics of Roman sepulchral art formthe posts of the great west doorway, and numerousmonumental slabs of later ages are placed uprightagainst the lower part of the west wall. The strange rambling plan of the interior seemsat first to have no system or reasonableness, but thefour rows of columns and arches, and the five aisleswith the chapels beyond them, produce an eflect ofintricacy and mystery that are not without a certaincharm. The explanation of the singular ground-plan ( 116) of this church is due to the ingenuity ofDr. Kandler, who observed that the two secondaryaisles with their apses and mosaic decorations hadall the appearance of having been the central navesof two distinct churches standing side by side. Byrestoring the missing aisle of each of these churcheshe recovered the original plan (vid. Fig. 116), and VOL. ITI. A a 354 Trieste: the Diioino. [Ch. xxxill. the correctness of his surmise is confirmed by the. Fi?. 116. Ch. XXXIII.] Trieste: the Duomo. 355 analogy of the double church of S. Michele in Monteat Pola (vid. supra, Fig. 104, page 298). The northernof the two churches, that del Santissinno^ whenrestored to its pristine form appears a simplebasilica, with nave and aisles and an apse atthe east end of the nave ; the southern church,dedicated to S. Giusto, similarly restored appears acruciform Byzantine building, with nave and aisles,transept and central cupola. What may have beenthe object of placing two churches in such closejuxtaposition is a curious question. Dr. Kandlerstheory is that the northern or basilican churchwas the cathedral, and the southern cruciformchurch the confessio or irnartyriuin of SaintsServulus and Justus \ According to the usual prac-tice the confessio should have been a crypt belowthe high altar of the cathedral, as at Aquileja orZara, but this may have been prevented
Size: 1267px × 1972px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectart, bookyear1887
