Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . most establish asa certainty the suspicion of the worthy archaeologist; but stillthere remains a difficulty in the fact that, however rough thesculptures of the ciborium may be, those of the altar are in-*U»( ^/.o here replaced by crude, gross furrows, and from the inelegant,childish, and barbarous distribution of the ornaments, thatmake the work the rudest specimen of this style remaining inItaly. Only the supposition that Orso intended merely tosketch out his design on the marble with those fu
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . most establish asa certainty the suspicion of the worthy archaeologist; but stillthere remains a difficulty in the fact that, however rough thesculptures of the ciborium may be, those of the altar are in-*U»( ^/.o here replaced by crude, gross furrows, and from the inelegant,childish, and barbarous distribution of the ornaments, thatmake the work the rudest specimen of this style remaining inItaly. Only the supposition that Orso intended merely tosketch out his design on the marble with those furrows, and had ?? The fragmentary awkwardness of its supports has much in comiuon with tlioseof the church of Aghate, near Monza, built in 881. 101 no time to tinisli it, being perhaps prevented IVom doing s(» \>y death, could remove the obstacles which oppose this attribution. The style of those frescoes is at any rate Byzantine in every particular : cordons, olive-branches, crosses, hexagonal. Fig. 31. -Baptisterj- of Calisto at Cividalc— 737. roses, foliage, fans, circles, and again crosses. One also seeson it a vase flanked by two doves and grotesque figures ofpeople praying. CiviDAT-E.—But where the most numerous and best pre-served, if not the best, works of this style are to be found, inItaly is at Cividale, in Friuli. Since about 630 the Patriarchs of Aquileia resided in I04 Cormons ; but Calisto, disdaining that humble little place in737, transferred his seat to Cividale, which, besides being alarger and richer city, was also the fixed residence of the Dukeof Friuli. There Calisto built, amongst other things, thebaptismal font which still exists, having been removed to thecathedral in the seventeenth century from the neighbouringbaptistery now destroyed. It is of octagonal form and intended for the rite ofimmersion. It is encircled by a parapet likewise octagonal,open on two sides, on Avhich are raised eight slim little columnsbearing the same number of se
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