. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. % ^^ FifT. 42. Torcello. Cathedral and >S. Fosca. As vAily as the iiiiddlr i>\ tli< lifth cciilury, the islands of tlw;Venetian la<;inus l)t<;aii lo recoive the fugitives from iUv. cathedraleities to the eastward alon*;- the north shore; of the; Adriati4t they huilt the eathedral of Torecdh), wliieh, restored in theninth century and again in tlieeleventh eentury, still shows usits original disposition of partsand much of its actual con-struction and decoration. Itis a rectang
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. % ^^ FifT. 42. Torcello. Cathedral and >S. Fosca. As vAily as the iiiiddlr i>\ tli< lifth cciilury, the islands of tlw;Venetian la<;inus l)t<;aii lo recoive the fugitives from iUv. cathedraleities to the eastward alon*;- the north shore; of the; Adriati4t they huilt the eathedral of Torecdh), wliieh, restored in theninth century and again in tlieeleventh eentury, still shows usits original disposition of partsand much of its actual con-struction and decoration. Itis a rectangular basilica, meas-uring within the walls seventyfeet in breadth and one hun-dred and eighteen feet inlength. (Fig. 42.) The naveand aisles, separated by ar-cades of ten high, stilted, per-fectly plain, round arches oneach side, supported on mar-ble colunms, whose capitalshave the Corinthian form,with Byzantine leafage and stilt-blocks, terminate each in a semicircular apse, of wdiicli the cen-tral one alone belongs to the original construction. This apse is themost striking and instruc
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