Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . butin the most disgraceful waypossible, scarcely rough-hewingthe marble, not caring to hintat the champignons, the volutes,and the cushions, by intaglio oreven with furrows; so that thosecapitals have rather the appear-ance of rude masses hardlysquared, just as they came fromthe quarries, than of finishedworks of sculpture. Thesecapitals are really so barbarous that I should be tempted toassign to them the period of the beginning of the eighthcentury, if their visible relationship with those of
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . butin the most disgraceful waypossible, scarcely rough-hewingthe marble, not caring to hintat the champignons, the volutes,and the cushions, by intaglio oreven with furrows; so that thosecapitals have rather the appear-ance of rude masses hardlysquared, just as they came fromthe quarries, than of finishedworks of sculpture. Thesecapitals are really so barbarous that I should be tempted toassign to them the period of the beginning of the eighthcentury, if their visible relationship with those of S. Maria-in- Cosmedin, and the presence inS. Saba of rugged sculpturesof Italian-Byzantine style, didnot persuade me to believethem to be of the time ofAdrian I. They may, how-ever, be classed among theoldest works of that style inRome, and they possibly dateback much further than The Italian-Byzantinesculptures of S. Saba are two fiagments of a parapet fitted Fig. 83. -Capital of the Clnu-cli of S. Saba,Eome—End of the Vlllth Century. tv*»„,/.ii-.;,.,-v-;^-;.. Fig. 84.—Capital of the Portico of , Eome— 772-795. T76 into the pavement of the left nave, scnlptnred with squaresformed of knotted osiers, filled up with g?rape^*, loaves, littlepalms and roses. A small pilaster, with rough rounds of leaves,after the Byzantine style, now serves for a staircase to one ofthe doors, that forms a passage from the neighhouring monasteryto the kitchen garden ; and, huilt into the north wall of thesame one sees two long friezes in the same style with gyresof vine-hranches enclosing rugged animals.
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