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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s were already a maritimepower, and in 1006 they began their great cathedral.But after repeated successes against the Saracens, fromwhom they conquered the island of Sardinia in 1025, andwhose fleet they destroyed off Palermo in 1063, captur-ing six great vessels of the enemy laden with merchandize,they determined to devote part of their spoils to theadornment of their cathedral, and to build it in a moresplendid manner than that they first intended. It was, asVasari says, no small matter at that time to set theirhands to the bulk of a church of this kind of five naves,and almost all of marble inside and out. The architectwas Boschetto, or Busketus, a Greek of Dulichium, a manof rare skill in that age, who was buried in his cathedralwith three epitaphs over him. It has been remarked that this church, to the adorn-ment of which the spoils of the infidel were devoted, is abuilding in advance of its age ; and it certainly is some-what of an architectural prodigy, for it shows a perfectly
Text Appearing After Image:
CH, XVl) PISA 243 developed style, not approached by any other work of its Thetime. The steps by which its perfection was reached are of pTsamissing, for if there were any that led up to it they areunknown to us. S. Miniato at Florence, the only churchof the date worthy to compare with it, is in a quitedifferent style. Though the architect is reported to be Greek, Latintradition dictated a basilican rather than the domical plan

Note About Images