Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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55-5rK€l!U5^BACCHU5. Fig. 21. which occurs also at Ravenna, Salonica, and Parenzo.Those of the upper storey have a quasi-pulvino (Fig. 21)which has descended and become merged in an Ioniccapital with rude and almost barbarous volutes. Thegallery runs all round, except where interrupted on theeast side by the opening to the apse which occupies bothstoreys. The aisle and gallery above it are each ceiledwith an annular vault, like the aisle of S. Costanza atRome, and in this way the awkwardness of the pro-trusion of the exedrae into the aisle is avoided, whichcauses such confusion in the aisle vaults of S. Vitale atRavenna. Plate XI
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