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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
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) generally said onthe strength of a monogram to have been that ofS. Maximian, the archbishop in Justinians reign. Laterdiscovery seem to identify it with a chair superblycarved in panels of ivory sent by Doge Pietro Orseolo 11from Venice as a present to the Emperor Otto III inlooi, which the emperor left to be preserved at Ravenna^The monogram of Maximian on it, if it really spellsMaximian, which I doubt, might in that case belong tosome other bishop of that name in the 5th century andin the Eastern Empire. The havoc of barbarian inroads have destroyed manyfamous churches of which mention is made by Agnellus.The port of Classis, and the suburb of Caesarea whichconnected it with Ravenna, have disappeared leaving 1 They are illustrated by Rivoira, Vol. I, Figs. 66, 67. 2 Ricci, Italia artistica, pp. 35, 36. Dalton, Byzantine art and archaeo-ogy, p. 203. Its provenance is variously attributed by archaeologists to Alexandria or Antioch. The monogram however is in Roman letters. Plate XXX
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IVORY THRONE—RAVENNA CH. x) RAVENNA, ROMAN PERIOD 159 hardly a stone behind them. With them has gone theEcclesia Petriana, begun by Archbishop Peter, and Thefinished by his successor Neon, which Agnellus tells Petrfanaus excelled all the other churches in Ravenna in lengthand height and splendour of marble and mosaic. Herewas a marvellous portrait of our Lord which seems tohave disappeared before Agnellus wrote in the 9thcentury\ The legend connected with it is pretty, andsuperior I think to the ordinary dull level of mediaevalwonder and miracle. There was a holy Father in the desert who besought the Lorddaily to show him the form of his incarnation. And when he wasweary of praying a man in white robes, in angel garb, stood besidehim at night, and said Thy prayer is heard, and I have looked onthy labour. Rise, go to the city called Classis, and enquire for theEcclesia Petriana, and having entered look above the door, andthere shalt thou see me depicted on the plaster of the wall. Th

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