Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . rig. 99. in 1467-8 ^ Of all this there is nothing now to beseen in the church, but I happened upon the ^ Yid. vol. ii. pp. 128, 133. Arbe. PLcUeJJX. Battista Ch. XXVIII.] Arbe: S. Giov. Battista. 227 inscription in another part of the town, as will berelated by-and-by. The roofs of the church wereof wood, and apparently there was no clerestory,but both nave and aisles were covered under oneslope. The most curious part of the church, the apsewith its surrounding aisle, is as I have said st
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . rig. 99. in 1467-8 ^ Of all this there is nothing now to beseen in the church, but I happened upon the ^ Yid. vol. ii. pp. 128, 133. Arbe. PLcUeJJX. Battista Ch. XXVIII.] Arbe: S. Giov. Battista. 227 inscription in another part of the town, as will berelated by-and-by. The roofs of the church wereof wood, and apparently there was no clerestory,but both nave and aisles were covered under oneslope. The most curious part of the church, the apsewith its surrounding aisle, is as I have said stillstanding, though in a most precarious state (PlateLIX). So far as I know the plan is unique in thispart of Europe, and takes one back across the Alpsto Clermont-Ferrand, Smith field, or ambulatory, opening with arches to the centralapse, is not properly a basilican arrangement, and itis a surprise to meet with it in a place so farremoved from the influence of northern architectureas Arbe, whither, owing to its very slight connexionwith Hungary, there was even less chance thanelsewhere in Dalmatia of foreign architects findingtheir way. There are many solecisms in the way this foreigndesign has been carried out
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