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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the finechurch of Borgo San Donnino. The latter building- seems to date from the 12th cen- Borgo San . /-p., . Donnino tury with several subsequent alterations. The nave isvaulted in double bays, that is to say one in the nave fortwo in the aisle. The nave arcade is simple, with twosquare orders resting on cushion capitals, and the tri-forium has four blank arches under an including one, thecolonnettes having simple capitals a crochet (Fig. 62).All this is very unlike anything we have been consideringin Rome or Tuscany. The nave vault is domical,quadripartite with wide flat transverse arches, anddiagonal and wall ribs. Two small lights, round-arched,form the clerestory in each bay. The apse in the insidehas three lights below a range of colonnettes carryingconverging ribs. Outside (Plate LXXIX) it has thePisan arcaded gallery, which was adopted by the Lom-bards, surmounting a lofty blank arcade, which is also aPisan feature; but the apse being round and not very 270 LOMBARDY (CH. XVII
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Fig. 62. CH. xvii) LOMBARDY 271 large the semi-circular arches are disagreeably distorted. Borgo s.The capitals here are very simply foliated. The choir is °°raised by 12 steps above a crypt with columns andcapitals of the 13th century. The aisles are cross-vaulted. The west front has traces of a 12th century designwith Romanesque pilasters carrying Corinthian capitals,and many old bits of sculpture are built in. Threeprojecting porches however were added in the followingcentury, which have altered the character of the fa9ade.Although they hardly fall within our period I cannot butnotice the two magnificent lions of white marble whichflank the central doorway and carry the columns of theporch: they have no rivals in North Italy (PlateLXXX). These lions guarding the portals, and bearing up the The lionporches are not peculiar to Lombardy. I remember two ^^^ ^ ^at one of the churches in Rome, I think SS. Giov. e Paolo,and there are two at S. Maria Toscanella, but these areonly half li

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