. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. so, itshowed, as in Verona,in Modena, in Bologna,the influence of outsideforces and modes ofthought. In time, itsduration may be said tocease in the thirteenthcentury, wdien it passedinto the Gothic, evenas on the north of theAlps the Romanesqueof Germany and north-ern France had done acentury earlier, — butin Italy, the Gothic stillretained, as we shall seelater, certain of the fea-tures of the Lombardstyle. The origin and dateof the earliest of the Lombard churches which are stiU standing,are, a
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. so, itshowed, as in Verona,in Modena, in Bologna,the influence of outsideforces and modes ofthought. In time, itsduration may be said tocease in the thirteenthcentury, wdien it passedinto the Gothic, evenas on the north of theAlps the Romanesqueof Germany and north-ern France had done acentury earlier, — butin Italy, the Gothic stillretained, as we shall seelater, certain of the fea-tures of the Lombardstyle. The origin and dateof the earliest of the Lombard churches which are stiU standing,are, as I have said, a matter of conjecture, and. thereforeof controversy, into which we will not enter. It is enough Lombardto say that they prove with sufficient clearness that inplan and construction the Lombards did but follow at first thefashion of the basilicas which they found existing all over Italy,the Roman type, which had been adopted w^herever the Christianreligion had penetrated. Of these churches, the most ancient isperhaps S. Salvatore at Brescia ; two others, S. Vincenzo in Prato. Fig-. 57. S. Salvatore, Brescia. 100 ARCHTTECTrRE IN ITALY t ,^ji^^m^^r:^mj0^
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