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

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Plaic XXIX
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TOMIMIUUSE OF GALLA ILACIDIA—RAVENNA CH. x) RAVENNA, ROMAN PERIOD 153 Under the dome is an altar with sides of transparentalabaster carved in low relief with two sheep regardinga central cross. Behind is the huge sarcophagus ofPlacidia, so high that she was placed in it seated on athrone \ Honorius lies in another sarcophagus, and athird contains the bodies of Constantius, Placidias secondhusband, and her son, the unworthy Valentinian III, themurderer of his great general Aetius. Like the baptistery and other buildings in Ravennathis mausoleum had sunk and the floor has been raisednearly six feet, which has ruined its interior proportions.Even now the water sometimes rises from below andinvades the floor. The church of S. Giovanni Evangelista at Ravenna, s. Gjo-sadly stuccoed and disfigured some 300 years ago, was Evange-built by Galla Placidia about 425 in performance of a ^^^vow made during a storm at sea. Like several otherbuildings in the city it had sunk, and has had to beraise

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