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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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n city of Tuscania, re-named Toscanellaby Boniface VIII in ridicule or revenge for its rebellionin 13001 The church of S. Pietro is dated by Sign. Rivoira^as regards the principal part of the fabric, in the reign ofLuitprand (712—743), the greatest of the Lombard kings :and as it appears from a deed of sale, dated 739, that theComacine Master Rodpert was then in the place, it maybe that he was the original architect. The church islofty, spacious and well proportioned. The architectureis of various dates. The plan is basilican (Plate LV), witha single apse at the west end. There are five round archeson columns next the entrance at the east end: thenfollows a pier with two half columns attached from whichon each side an arch springs to the two massive piers at ^ Charlemagne conquered Dalmatia but restored the maritime cities tothe Emperor Nicephorus ob amicitiam et junctum cum eo foedus. Eginhart,Vita Carol. Magn. ^ Toscanella e i suoi monu?nenti. A. Aureli. 2 Rivoira, Vol. I. p. 148.
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CH.xiv) TUSCANY 217 the beginning of the presbytery. The two eastern bays Toscaneiiahave either been re-built, or added at a later date, but the ^^^°rest of the church westward, including the apse, is of theearly building. The capitals of the half columns and thepresbytery are extremely rude, roughly chopped downfrom square to round on the top of the shaft in thecoarsest and most artless way. For the next two columnson each side antique capitals have been used ; two ofthem are Corinthian : one is of tolerably good work, butits fellow being only cut in tufa is naturally rough. Thetwo others are of rather rude Ionic ; and they all aresurmounted by deep abaci almost amounting to pulviniand answering the same purpose. The arches are roundand have two orders, perhaps the earliest instance of sucha feature ; and Messer Rodpert has hit on the disagreeableidea of setting forward at irregular intervals the voussoirsof the inner order to the plane of the outer, which has abizarre and disturbin

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