Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 62.—Capital of S. SavioursChurch, Brescia— * Dartein gives us a drawing of one of these capitals with a cross, but wronglyinterpreted the mutilated lower part, supposing it to have had only one row of leaves,while, if one carefully exanaiues it, the remains of a lower row are evident. 147. * Fig. G3.—rian of S. Saviours Crypt—Vlllthand Xllth Centuries. GaiTucci, erroneously attributetl to the eighth century. As forthe second part, if we observe its organism, we sliall see some-thi
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . Fig. 62.—Capital of S. SavioursChurch, Brescia— * Dartein gives us a drawing of one of these capitals with a cross, but wronglyinterpreted the mutilated lower part, supposing it to have had only one row of leaves,while, if one carefully exanaiues it, the remains of a lower row are evident. 147. * Fig. G3.—rian of S. Saviours Crypt—Vlllthand Xllth Centuries. GaiTucci, erroneously attributetl to the eighth century. As forthe second part, if we observe its organism, we sliall see some-thing embarrassed and primitive that suggests, as it were, the first essays of one whofound himself before aproblem that he knewnot how to solve; andif we examine the deco-rative particulars — thatis to say, the capitals andstuccoes—we tind themstamped mth the cha-racter of the Byzantinestyle of the thirteenthcentury (see Fig. 64).Must one, then, con-clude that this portionot the crypt is contemporaneous with the construction of thechurch—dating, that is to say, from the middle of the eighthcentury ? Many will refuse to be persuaded that cryptswere not in use anterior to the eleventh centuiy; but I donot, because I know that even the eighth century, let alonethe ninth, will give us new and more perfect examples ofcrypts raised higher than the floor of the church and Avhichconsequently ra
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