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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oted to be the principal features. The sameinsistence on the caulicolus may be observed in theportico of the Duomo. At S. Giusto the Byzantineraffling of the acanthus leaves is remarkable. Peculiarity One peculiarity of the arcaded fronts here and at Pisais that in most cases they finish in the upper stages witha column in the centre instead of an arch. It is so in theCathedral and S. Michele in Borgo at Pisa, and in theDuomo, S. Maria Bianca, and S. Pietro Somaldi atLucca. On the contrary at S. Paolo a ripa d Arno inPisa, and S. Giusto in Lucca and the Cathedral ofPistoja there is an arch in the centre, which to anarchitects eye is more satisfactory. Late ex- So much were the Pisans attached to their arcaded fa9ades that they continued them long after Romanesquetimes, and the churches of S. Michele in Borgo andS. Caterina have arcaded galleries with pointed archesand trefoil cusping. Illustrated in the Mdlanges d^Archdologie, vol. l. Paris, 1847. in arcading am pies of arcaded fronts
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CH. xvi) PISAN INFLUENCE 257 The Pisan arcaded front does not appear in Lombardy, Thebut there is something Hke it at Ancona at the church fronf^^of S. Maria which is dated in 1210, where however it isnot pierced for a gallery ; and it crossed the Adriatic toZara, when the facade of the Duomo is covered with blankarcading, and the north side has a practicable gallerybehind columns and arches. When these arcaded frontswere entirely occupied by colonnaded galleries, as atS. Martins in Lucca (Plate LXX), great western windowshad to be given up, and only very small and comparativelyunimportant windows could be had at the back of thepassages. At the Cathedral of Zara, however, where thearcading of the front is not sunk for galleries like that ofthe north side of the church, but only applied to thesurface, the design is interrupted at two levels by largerose windows\ This of course would have been im-possible at Lucca or Pisa. The towers of Lucca belong rather to the Lombard Lucchesetype, t

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