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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ay,—so calledbecause it stood outside Constantines wall, is said tohave been founded by Justinian and rebuilt by MariaDucaina, mother-in-law of Alexius Comnenus in thenth or early in the 12th century. It is a very com-plicated structure (Fig. 32); the main body of the churchis small, cruciform in plan with an apse, and a domewhich has been very lately rebuilt after damage by anearthquake. The walls are lined with marble slabs asat S. Sophia in bands and panels, finished above at thespringing of the arches and dome with a small cornice ofacanthus leaves, below which is a band of marble mosaic.The arms of the cross are very shallow and formed not CH. ix) LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 131 by detached piers standing within the square of the dome, church ofbut by solid projections from the main wall at the fourangles. The south chapel contains two finely carved archedslabs, now fixed on the walls facing one another, butevidently not in their original place. At first sight one MONH THI XriFAZ
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zp 30 ^a ^-feetr —X. I . 1 : ! 1 o 10 Fig. 32 (Murray). imagines them part of a ciborium, such as those at Arbein Dalmatia, S. Apollinare in Classe or Cividale in Friuli,but they seem too large. M. Diehl, on the authorityperhaps of M. Schmitt\ says they belonged to themonument of Michael Tornikes, which dates from the 1 M. Schmitt has published a splendid monograph on this church andits mosaics, with full illustrations. Unfortunately the text exists only inRussian. 9—2 132 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS (ch. ix Church of beginning of the 14th century. If really as late as thatthey show a curious archaicism, for they have preservedthe character of Byzantine carving very exactly. Asthey contain sculptured figures, they so far break withByzantine tradition ; which may be the effect of contactwith western art resulting from the half century of theLatin occupation of Constantinople. But the questionof western influence is raised more imperatively whenwe turn to the decorations of the narthe

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