Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . e style, with palm leaves and four small volutes oneach front. Eight others, quite similar in dimensions andornamentation, are found in the church, six are in the existingambo, and two are upside down, condemned to serve as sliould have crowned as many colonnettes of the choir builtby the Patriarch John. Those who would wish to have amaterial proof of the age and paternity that I assign to thesesame sculptures, can see in the court behind the cathedral afragment of an architrave, orn
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . e style, with palm leaves and four small volutes oneach front. Eight others, quite similar in dimensions andornamentation, are found in the church, six are in the existingambo, and two are upside down, condemned to serve as sliould have crowned as many colonnettes of the choir builtby the Patriarch John. Those who would wish to have amaterial proof of the age and paternity that I assign to thesesame sculptures, can see in the court behind the cathedral afragment of an architrave, ornamented like those abovedescribed, with braids and caulicules, and bearing the gravenname of this same patriarch. -JOHANNES lYNIOR SOLIIDI . . We may mention for its elegance another archi-trave in the same couit,. with a frieze composed of nine smallarches, decorated with notching, supported by twisted colonnettes,and filled in by large and beautiful wild acanthus leaves. Sagornino, whom I have just cited, after speaking of theworks with which the patriarch John enriched the cathedral. 284. Fig. 138. —Fragment of Archivolt of the Ciborium ofS. Maria at Grado— 814-818. adds : In saitctae vero Dei f/enitricis Marine cccksia supraaltare ciborium pcregit. Of this ciborium there also remainssomething, namely, three fragments of its monolithic arcadesand a portion of architrave, which one sees to-day barbarouslyenchased in the pavement of the church. The arcades arediversely and gracelullyornamented with dovesand some with decor-ative motives, tolerablypleasing and novel con-sidering the epoch, inwhich a certain spon-taneity of forms con-trasts with the rudi-mentary caprice of thechisel. They are alsodecorated with the in-evitable tresses, which present here, however, a peculiarityhighly characteristic of the Byzantine style of the ninthcentury; they are formed of bandelets, not, as in the past,marked by equidistant rays so as to pourtray rushes, but by twolines engraved alo
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