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Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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Fi^^ 1(52. S. Vitale. Capital, iroiu Lower Arcade of Tribune. character with that below, but bolder and more strongly undercut,and where the angles are quite lost, and the capital has an imperfectlydeveloped abacus receding on each face as in the Corinthian capital,but with a swelling outward curve in the centre, the foliage belowfollowing the j)lan of the abacus. The upi)er walls of the tribune are extremely interesting. On TIIK BYZANTINE INFLrKNCK 225
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Fig, ill;^. 8. \itale. Upper Wall of Tribune. either side is a triple-arched opening divided by cohimns whose capi-tals are similar in character to those below. The head of the greatenclosing arch is filled with a fan-like decoration, and the walls arecovered with the original sixth-century mosaics, very varied in sub-ject and thoroughly B^-zantine in feeling. At Rome the Byzantine influence had to meet the resistance ofthe stronsr conservatism of which I have spoken above, and . . , . -, . , . . . At Rome. it is only m a few comparatively inconspicuous instancesthat it can be traced. In San Stefano Rotondo, of which the date isprobably anterior to that of the second group of Ravenna churches,the outer range of columns, now embedded in the enclosing wall, butoriginally forming the division between the two surrounding aisles,have their rude capitals surmounted by stilt-blocks of simple charac-ter. The capitals are Ionic and Corinthian, varying according to thegroups of columns to which

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