Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ch with a pattern in mosaic(Fig. 14). The soffit does not project in the mannerfollowed afterwards at Venice to receive the facing slabof the voussoirs, but the two seem to be mitred togetherat the edge of the arch. One of the arches in the southtransept also retains its soffit of grey marble, split andopened to form a pattern. From a small piece of marble facing remaining onthe outside of the apse it may be supposed that theexterior of the church was partly at all events veneeredwith marble like the nave. At present the exteriorbrickwork is plastered an
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ch with a pattern in mosaic(Fig. 14). The soffit does not project in the mannerfollowed afterwards at Venice to receive the facing slabof the voussoirs, but the two seem to be mitred togetherat the edge of the arch. One of the arches in the southtransept also retains its soffit of grey marble, split andopened to form a pattern. From a small piece of marble facing remaining onthe outside of the apse it may be supposed that theexterior of the church was partly at all events veneeredwith marble like the nave. At present the exteriorbrickwork is plastered and brilliantly the interior the marble facing is confined to the nave. The glass The Icsser arcades dividing the aisles were decorated withglass mosaics, which have only recently been discoveredbelow the plaster. Those now exposed are believed tobe all that remain, for so far from hiding these decora-tions, the Turks have made careful search for more byremoving plaster elsewhere, but without success. They mosaics Plate IX. S. DEMETRIUS—SALONICA CH. v] CHURCHES AT SALONICA 65 are mostly confined to a part of the secondary arcade s. De-dividing the two north aisles, and occupy the soffits and tL^spandrils of the arches, but there are also panels of ^°^^^^^mosaic on the responds of both main arcades. Inbeauty of execution these works will bear comparisonwith any of those at Ravenna or Parenzo. They representvarious saints, there is the Virgin between two angels,and in many cases there are little figures to representthe donors of the several panels. One of those on theresponds of the great arcade has S. Demetrius betweenthe figures of a bishop and a civic dignitary, whom an Theinscription in four iambic lines describes as the founders p°ictlir?^of the church :— KTICTAC OeOOPeiC TOY nANeNAOHOY A0M8 eKeioeN eNoeN maptypoc ahmhtpioy TO BAPBAPON KAYAGONA BAPBAPGON CTOAOOMeTATPenONTOC KAI nOAIN AYTPOYMENOY^ The figures are evidently portraits, but unfortunatelythey a
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