Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . igi.^:. FiG. 11.—Slab of Marble at S. Johns, Monza—Beginning of the Vllth Century. tures in bas-relief, hard and coarse, childishly enriched by amultitude of drilled holes, bear testimony to the miserablecondition to which the calamities before alluded to had reducedItalian art at the beginning of the seventh century. Many are the sacred edifices of Lombardy and othercountries f that, according to popular tradition, owed their origin ??? Inventaires de la Basiliquo royale de Monza. \ I was much
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . igi.^:. FiG. 11.—Slab of Marble at S. Johns, Monza—Beginning of the Vllth Century. tures in bas-relief, hard and coarse, childishly enriched by amultitude of drilled holes, bear testimony to the miserablecondition to which the calamities before alluded to had reducedItalian art at the beginning of the seventh century. Many are the sacred edifices of Lombardy and othercountries f that, according to popular tradition, owed their origin ??? Inventaires de la Basiliquo royale de Monza. \ I was much surprised to read that Eicci, rejecting the tradition that ascribes thefoundation of the baptistery of Florence to Thcodoric, should so easily accept theone attributing it to Teodolinda. He props up his conjecture by noticing certainimperfections in the internal columns ; but it is easy to see that the author hascaught a monstrous crab. But quite recently the Arch. Aristide Nardiui-Despotti-Mospignoti, wrote in the Florentine periodical, Arte e Storia (June 15, 1888), that,according to his ju
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