. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Republic, p. 100.) Domenico Selvo was deposed in 10S5. after reigningfourteen years. 250 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY question which can never be answered with certainty, and is reallyof the least importance, since, whether the one or the other, it is clearthat he was penetrated and inspired by the genuine spirit of Byzan-tine decoration. It should, however, be noted, as I have said before,that the plan of the church is in no respect distinctively Byzantine,but shows much more affinity with many of the K
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Republic, p. 100.) Domenico Selvo was deposed in 10S5. after reigningfourteen years. 250 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY question which can never be answered with certainty, and is reallyof the least importance, since, whether the one or the other, it is clearthat he was penetrated and inspired by the genuine spirit of Byzan-tine decoration. It should, however, be noted, as I have said before,that the plan of the church is in no respect distinctively Byzantine,but shows much more affinity with many of the Komanes(]ue churchesof North Italy than with the typical churches of Constantinople orThessalonica.^ It is a Greek cross (Fig. 191), with nave, transepts,and choir of a uniform breadth of about thirty-eight feet, all flankedby aisles, of the width of twenty feet in the nave and choir, andfifteen feet in the transepts, the separation of the aisles from theircentral spaces being effected by screens of columns and arches whichform narrow bridges leading to the snuill 2:alleries at the ends of the. I 1^. ISS. I)(»(ir\\a\ Auli ut ^i in (^aniix) S. Marg-herita. transepts ai^projiriated for the use of women. The interior lengthexcluding the ai)se is alxmt one Imndred and seventy feet, and thebreadth across tlie transept a littk greater. At the intersection ofthe arms of the cross are set four great ])iers about twenty-one bytwenty-eight feet in j)lan, of which the construction is peculiar. Eacli ^ It is believed that the ])hui of St. Marks follows closely that of the Church of theAjtosthsat Constantinople, hnilt l»y Justinian, antl now no lon«^er existinjr. of which description by Irocopius seems to indicate a <^eneral siniilaritv to St. Marks. IliK i;y/antink INKLUKNCK 251 )»iir shows (Ml llic plan in the form oi foni- small \)u1h about hIxand a half foot scjuari, Ixtwccn which in two (lircctions pass theaishs of nave, transepts, and choir. The small ])i(!rs a
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