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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Pietro church of S. PiETRO SoMALDi also offends in this way s. Maria though not SO badly (Plate LXXI I). S. Maria Biancaor Foris Portam, has another arcaded front finished abovein brick. The apse of this church has a colonnadedgallery outside carrying lintels instead of arches, and so s. Fred- has the apse of the fine church of S. Frediano. Thelatter church was re-built and enlarged between 1112and 1147, and has the apse at the west and the entranceat the east end. The fa9ade is plain below, and theupper part instead of the Lucchese galleries has a splendidmosaic filling the gable. It is a fine basilica 12 bays longwith cylindrical columns and Corinthianizing capitals.The inside of all these Lucchese churches is very similar;plain arcades, the arches cut square through the wallwithout mouldings, simple columns mostly no doubt lano 1 This front has been entirely re-built. When I first saw it in 1864 it washalf pulled down. Ridolfi regrets that so little of the old work was usedagain. I
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Plate LXXn

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