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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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id by theCosmati in the 12th century covers the floor. In these mosaics, and the numerous others from the5th to the 8th century which abound in Rome wecannot but see the influence of Byzantine art, and thehandiwork of Greek artists. We may see it also in themural decorations of the beautiful basilica of S. Sabina s. Sabinaon the Aventine, which has inlaid patterns of porphyryand coloured marble in the spandrels of its arcades,recalling the Byzantine dados of Ravenna and Parenzo(Fig. 43). ^ When the churches were thrown together by the removal of the twoapses, which were dos-ct-dos^ the triumphal arch of the Pelagian churchremained, but the mosaics that fronted the old nave are hidden from thepresent one, and can only be seen from what is now the back. ^ Ange. says these mosaics were executed by Sixtus III, as the inscrip-tion states, and are mentioned in a letter of Hadrian I to Charlemagne. Hesays they were appealed to as an argument against the Iconoclasts. 13—2 196 ROME (CH. XIII
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Fig. 43- Plate XL IX

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