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
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ys are divided by halfcolumns which now carry nothing, but may once havecarried arches of brick like those in the front of the Panto-crator (Plate XX). The whole structure seems of brick,the elevation is not great, and the fa9ade generally is veryinferior to that of S. Theodore Tyrone. A door with asimilar frame of red marble leads to the inner narthexwhere two of the bays have real domes on pendentives.The central door thence to the church has on the insidea cornice prettily carved with birds and foliage. A sidedoorway has one marble jamb lining made out of anearlier fragment representing a door with deeply sunkpanels and in the centre of each panel was once somecarving, now defaced. This resembles, and is probablycoeval with a marble screen panelled in the same way,that crosses the south gallery at S. Sophia. Mosaics But the most remarkable thing in this church is the mosaic decoration of the two nartheces, which veryfortunately is dated, and so fills an important place in -■»-i^
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CH. ix) LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 133 the history of pictorial art. It is extremely like the work church ofof the Italian primitive painters, Cimabue, Giotto, andMemmi. The faces are modelled a good deal, andthere are attempts at foreshortening and expressionvery unlike the character of the older mosaics of the 5thor 8th centuries. There is no name or monogram ofthe artists,—for there seem to have been more thanone, as the work is unequal,—but the donor is depictedkneeling with an enormous balloon-like bonnet on hishead, and offering a church, intended no doubt for thisone, to the Saviour. This mosaic is over the inner doorleading to the church and bears an inscription :— O KTrJTOip Xoyo9€Tr)S TOV yeVLKOV ©eoSojpoS O MerO^tXT^?. Mosaic dated 1303 Theodorus Metochites the Logothete or Treasurer re-paired and decorated the narthex under the Palaeologiafter the expulsion of the Latins and restoration of theGreek Empire. It is recorded that the work did notextend to the interior

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