. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. so common in the Hyzantinew(n*k, but more conventionalized than is usual in the purer examples,enclosing a ])eaeock of majestic proportions and as])ect. It is, per-haps, the finest example of decorative sculpture to be found in Italybelonging to the early centuries, showing neither in its design norits execution the naivetd and rudeness which are nearly inseparablefrom the work of these ages.^ (Fig. 180.) The ciborium offered, in the four arches which formed its facesand the spandrils above them,
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. so common in the Hyzantinew(n*k, but more conventionalized than is usual in the purer examples,enclosing a ])eaeock of majestic proportions and as])ect. It is, per-haps, the finest example of decorative sculpture to be found in Italybelonging to the early centuries, showing neither in its design norits execution the naivetd and rudeness which are nearly inseparablefrom the work of these ages.^ (Fig. 180.) The ciborium offered, in the four arches which formed its facesand the spandrils above them, a favorite field for the sculptor, andnumerous examples may be found all over Italy,in many of which muchof the Byzantine man-ner is to be noted. Themost important of theseis, perhaps, the ancientciborium of San Ambro-gio at Milan, dating pro-bably from the middle ofthe ninth century. () It rests on fourcolumns of red porphyrycarrying four roundarches, each covered bya gable, the space be-tween arch and o-ablebeing filled on each faceby a group of figures inrelief, modelled in stucco. Fig. 175. Cubic Capital, S. Sofia. Padua. and originally painted in colors on a gold ground. The archivoltsand cornice and also a vertical band at each anple are covered withdelicate Byzantine sculpture. In San Giorgio, Valpolicella, at Bagnicavallo, at Bologna on the ^ This fragment is now preserved in the Museum of Brescia. 238 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY •IM r;v:,: i. ? • It: •.. !il IV-:! 1 ?? ? . \.-li- n^ ?r
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