Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . als. The antiquity of this partof the building is supported by the plain round-headed clerestory windows w^hich are mere slits, andby the small apses in the east walls of the transeptwhich are lighted each by a slit of the same kind. Four pointed arches of the fourteenth centuryform the crossing, which is covered by vaultingeither of wood or plaster painted wdth the samecolours as the nave ceiling, and springing fromcolonnettes in the four angles wdth grotesque figuresby way of capitals. The semidome of th
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . als. The antiquity of this partof the building is supported by the plain round-headed clerestory windows w^hich are mere slits, andby the small apses in the east walls of the transeptwhich are lighted each by a slit of the same kind. Four pointed arches of the fourteenth centuryform the crossing, which is covered by vaultingeither of wood or plaster painted wdth the samecolours as the nave ceiling, and springing fromcolonnettes in the four angles wdth grotesque figuresby way of capitals. The semidome of the apse hasbeen modernized and covered with wretched stuccoand painting. But on the walls of the apse below,partly exposed but so damaged by having beenchopped to aflbrd a key for the later plastering 400 Aqiiileja: the Diiomo. [Ch. xxxv. as to be unintelligible, may be seen traces of Gothicpainting, and an inscription in Lombardic the centre is a good picture by Pellegrino diSan Daniele in its original carved and gilt the centre of the east end is the patriarchs. Fig. 123. throne of veined white marble inlaid with ser-pentino. The guide-books say it is only a work ofthe fifteenth century, but although it has certainlybeen taken to pieces and reconstructed more thanonce, it is undoubtedly made up of the paits of anancient throne of genuine Byzantine work. The Ch. xxxY] Aqiiileja: the Dttomo. 401 lowest step, which is of red marble, is a fragmentof thirteenth century workmanship, and does notbelong; to the rest. The choir stalls of walnut are fair samples ofsunple late Gothic woodwork. In front of the apse of the south transept is partof a marble screen of Byzantine or Romanesquework carved with a rich interlacing pattern, andformerly surmounted by colonnettes which probablysupported a cornice or entablature. Of this upperpart nothing now remains but a few fragments ofthe little columns. On the back of one of the slabsforming this screen is part of a Homan i
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