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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or in themiddle ages the quarries of porphyry were unknown andhave in fact only been re-discovered lately. But with thesematerials almost anything can be done, and without themthe same effect is unattainable, as any one will know whohas tried to make a pavement of the same kind withother materials. The soft white borders in which thegeometrical figures are set are essential to the beautyof the design. At Westminster Abbey, the ItalianOdericus, having no white marble, was obliged to usePurbeck for the setting of the porphyries and othermarbles which Abbot Ware had brought with him fromRome\ and the effect is very inferior to that of thesimilar pavements in Italy. ^ When the inlaid brass lettering was perfect it read Tertius Henricus Rex Urbs Odericus et AbbasHos compegere porphyreos lapides. The inscription on Abbot Wares tomb was this :— Abbas Ricardus de Ware hie requiescit Hie portat lapides quos hue portavit ab Urbe. Gleanings^ Westminster Abbey, G. G. Scott and others. Plate LIV
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S. FRANCESCA ROM AN A—ROME CH. xiii) ROME 209 Notice must also be taken of the baldacchini or Baidac-canopies of tabernacle work of which there are examples Rome^at S. Lorenzo, S. Clemente, and S. Giorgio in Velabro.They consist of four columns carrying a four-squarehorizontal architrave, on which are raised octagonalreceding stages, resting on colonnettes and finished witha pyramidal roof. They date probably from the 13thcentury, and the only instances of similar constructionsof which I am aware elsewhere are in Dalmatia, at Trail,Curzola, and Cattaro. J. A. 14 CHAPTER XIV THE LOMBARDS. ARCHITECTURAL BATHOS AND RE-VIVAL. RUPTURE BETWEEN ROME AND BYZANTIUM The In 568 Italy received the last great invasion and kingdom Settlement of a German people. The Lombards underAlboin, whether at the invitation of Narses, whom theEmpress Sophia had insulted and recalled from thescene of his victories or not, is uncertain, descended fromPannonia into the plain which has since borne their name.The

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