Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . , was inspired by Greek works of the eighth. And,guiding ourselves by the later works above-named, we mayinfer that the square inscribed in the circle contained in its. -?? ^iff?fe&^ Fig. 43.—Window near the Frescacla Eiidgeat Venice—Vlllth Century. I 21 turn a smaller circle, bound with the larger one by braidingand enclosing rosework. Leaves, rough but characteristic ofmany sculptures of that time, fill up the spaces. A gracious and interesting Greek work of the eighthcentury, perhaps brought
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . , was inspired by Greek works of the eighth. And,guiding ourselves by the later works above-named, we mayinfer that the square inscribed in the circle contained in its. -?? ^iff?fe&^ Fig. 43.—Window near the Frescacla Eiidgeat Venice—Vlllth Century. I 21 turn a smaller circle, bound with the larger one by braidingand enclosing rosework. Leaves, rough but characteristic ofmany sculptures of that time, fill up the spaces. A gracious and interesting Greek work of the eighthcentury, perhaps brought from terra firma, was recently boughtin Venice by the Sig. Cav. Guggenheim, who had the happyidea of placing it near his habitation, not far from S. is a little marble window, seventy centimetres high, piercedby various orders ol small arches, placed one above the other,or divided by three circular apertures, while lilies and braidsenrich its little imposts. But the thing in it that oughtspecially to hold our attention, is the large arch that termi-nates it, which is not semicircular but trefoil, and for thatreason is the most ancient of this sort that I know in shows us once more that only Greeks could have been theauthors of
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