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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e aisle some three feetdown, and below that is a still older mosaic now underwater which seems to show there was an earlier churchhere in the 5th century\s. Apoiiin- Coeval with S. Vitaie, and inferior to it in orimnalityciasse though not in beauty is the great basilican church ofS. Apollinaris at Classis, once the maritime suburb ofRavenna, but now deserted both by mankind and by thesea. (Plate XXXIX.) We read that it was built by Julianus Argentarius atthe bidding of Bishop Ursicinus (534—538) and it wasconsecrated by Bishop Maximian (546—552)^ As at the 1 Agnellus records that 26,000 golden solidi were spent on this church.Dean Milman taking the golden solidus at I2s. bd. makes the amountbetween ^i 5,000 and ;^i6,ooo, but that is quite insufficient. Lat. Christianity,Book III. Chap. in. ^ Agnellus, Vita S. Ursicini, Cap. I.; Vita S. Maximiani, Cap. iv. Hesays of it nulla ecclesia similis isti, eo quod in nocte ut in die penescandefiat. I have in vain sought the meaning of this.
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CH. xii) RAVENNA, THE EXARCHATE i8i earlier church of the same name within the city the s.ApoUin-columns here are evidently made for the place and not ciassestolen from some antique building. The capitals too areclearly original : they all have the pulvino, and theirdesign is based on the Roman composite, with volutes atthe angles, and acanthus leaves below; but they aretreated in a thoroughly Byzantine manner, and are nodoubt the work of Byzantine artists. The leaves arestrangely curled and twisted, as if blown by the wind,a design occurring also at S. Sophia, Salonica, and atS. Demetrius in the same city. The splendid columnsof polished grey and white veined marble rest on highmarble plinths which might almost be called pedestals.The semi-dome of the apse and the wall above the archare covered with extremely fine mosaics. Here also maybe noticed the superiority of a curved surface to a flatone for this species of decoration. There is no exampleof a basilican church finer than this,

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