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Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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AIX-LA-CHAPCLLE. L„.l-„l- ^f ^ /o Fig. 63. ;y letter^pttai^ j jrjtd and no one who has seen it and also the church atRavenna from which it is supposed to have been imitated,can doubt its foreign origin. Eginhardt tells us thatCharlemagne imported columns and marbles for the workfrom Ravenna and Rome^ and he is supposed to havestripped and ruined the splendid palace of Theodoric atthe former city which has now practically disappeared.But besides materials there can be little doubt he also ^ Eginhardt, Vtfa Caroli Magni, cap. xxvi. 2 Ad cujus structuram, cum columnas et marmora aliunde habere nohposset, Roma atque Ravenna devehenda curavit. Eginhardt, cap. xxvi. Plate LXXXII
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^ ISSl. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE cpi. xviii) GERMAN ROMANESQUE 3 imported from Italy his architect and his principal Aix-ia-builders. The resemblance to S. Vitale is very strong, ^^^ ^and yet there is sufficient difference to show that thebuilders were men of originality, able to think for them-selves, not tied to a simple imitation of their model, andthere could have been no such men in Austrasia then.Both churches have a dome over an octagon, a surround- The planing aisle in two storeys, though a womens gallery wasnot required by the Latin use, two staircases by which tomount to it at the west end enclosed in circular turrets ;and though at Aix there are no exedrae the arches of theupper gallery (Plate LXXXII) have colonnettes in themrecalliflg_those at Ravenna, and they have even some-thing like a pulvino on their capitals. Although thediameter of the dome is less than that at S. Vitale bymore than ten feet, still a domed building even of thesedimensions would be a considerable undertaking

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  • bookyear:1913
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Jackson__Thomas_Graham__Sir__1835_1924
  • booksubject:Architecture__Byzantine
  • booksubject:Architecture__Romanesque
  • bookpublisher:Cambridge__University_Press
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:16
  • bookcollection:robarts
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