Identifier: dalmatiaquarnero03jack (find matches)
Title: Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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piscina forbaptism by immersion. The atrium (Plate LX) consists of an open courtsome twenty-eight feet square, surrounded by acloistered walk with three arches on each side, thecentral arch of the east and west sides being widerand higher than the two side arches. The columnsare of marble taken from some classic building, butthe capitals, which are not in every case well fittedto their columns, are of Byzantine workmanship, ofthat simple basket-shaped type covered with piercedand undercut fretwork of which the church of S.Vitale at Ravenna affords so many examples. Above the roof of the eastern walk rises the greatwestern wall and gable of the nave, pierced by threewide round-arched windows over which are faint tracesof a circle now blocked up. And here one has a fore-taste of the glories that await one within the church,for the whole wall has once been covered with glassmosaic, of which considerable traces remain. Muchhas hopelessly perished, but beyond the extreme Paremzo Pi^vti Lx
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T.G.J Atrium of Basilica Ch. XXXI.) Parenzo: the Dnomo. ji / windows to right and left may still be seen figuresof saints in white draperies with j3urple clavus likethose in S. Apollinare Nuovo at Kavenna, while onthe piers between the windows are the burningcandlesticks of the apocalypse. From the eastern walk of the cloistered atriumthree doors with marble lintel and side posts openrespectively into the nave and aisles of the basilica.Each opening is slightly narrower at the top than atthe cill, and on the lintel of the great central dooris the monogram of Euphrasius (Fig. 107). Crossing the threshold, one might almost fancyoneself on the opposite shore of the Adriatic in theold capital of Theodoric and the ex-archs. There are the same closely-setranks of marble columns, and the samedelicately crisp acanthus leaves in thecapitals, and the view is bounded bya magnificent mosaic that may chal-lenge comparison with those of S.Apollinare in Classe and S. Yitale.The church of Parenzo is

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