. The story of Verona . nite relating toit can be affirmed. It was nearly completed in itsprimitive state in 806 under Bishop Rathold, thoughit was considerably heightened in after years. Thebuilding itself is a mixture of the Lombard style withGothic and Italian introduced—a mixture eminentlysatisfactory in its results notwithstanding the divergenceof style. Ruskin speaks of it as follows, when, aftersix months close study of Byzantine work in Venice,he came again to the Lombard work of Verona andPavia. (Verona)—Comparing the arabesque andsculpture of the Duomo here with St Marks, the firstth
. The story of Verona . nite relating toit can be affirmed. It was nearly completed in itsprimitive state in 806 under Bishop Rathold, thoughit was considerably heightened in after years. Thebuilding itself is a mixture of the Lombard style withGothic and Italian introduced—a mixture eminentlysatisfactory in its results notwithstanding the divergenceof style. Ruskin speaks of it as follows, when, aftersix months close study of Byzantine work in Venice,he came again to the Lombard work of Verona andPavia. (Verona)—Comparing the arabesque andsculpture of the Duomo here with St Marks, the firstthing that strikes one is the low relief, the second thegreater motion and spirit, with infinitely less grace andscience. With the Byzantines, however rude thecutting, every line is lovely, and the animals or menare placed in any attitudes which secure ornamentaleffect, sometimes impossible ones, always severe, re-strained, or languid. With the Romanesque workmenall the figures show the effort (often successful) to150. LRIi:H<^ ) L5 I 6 .<^c1 SOUTH DOOR OF THE DUOMO IS The Duomo express energetic action ; hunting chiefly, much fight-ing, and both spirited; some of the dogs runningcapitally, straining to it, and the knights hitting hard,while yet the faces and drawing are in the last degreebarbarous . . the Lombard building is as sharp,precise and accurate as that of St Marks is Byzantines seem to have been too lazy to haveput their stones together; and, in general, my firstimpression on coming to Verona, after four months inVenice, is of the exquisitely neat masonry and perfectfeeling here ; a style of Gothic formed by a combina-tion of Lombard surface ornament with Pisan Gothic,than which nothing can possibly be more chaste, pure,or solemn. ^ A temple dedicated to Minerva is said to have stoodhere originally, and traces of this can yet be seen,though in point of size there is no difference whateverbetween the Pagan temple of the past and the Christianch
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