Identifier: dalmatiaquarnero03jackuoft (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: Grado, Island of Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) Dalmatia (Croatia) Croatia -- Slavonia Montenegro
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 76. More striking than the church itself in the in-terior view is the magnificent ciborio or baldacchinoover the high altar and the gleaming pala of silvergilt that forms the back of it. Four slender octa-gonal columns of red marble from Lustiza^ in theterritory of Cattaro support a canopy like thoseof Trail or Curzola, formed by a series of three re-ceding octagonal stages, with little columns carryingtrefoiled arches, and each w4th a sloping roof Agilt angel surmounts the whole. It is wonderfulthat so slender a piece of construction should haveescaped the earthquake of 1667, which destroyedthe towers and west front. ^ Vid. supra, vol. ii. ^^. 70. ^ Gclcich, p. 43. Ch. xxill.j Cattaro: the Dnomo. 45
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■big- 77- 46 Cattaro: the Duomo. (Ch. xxiii. On three of the four sides of the architrave whichrests immediately on the columns are figures sculp-tured in relief illustrating the legend of S. Trifone,the fourth side bearing only a Byzantinesque scroll.The figures are long, attenuated, and rude, b\itspirited. The Byzantine acanthus occurs in thefour main capitals and on the back frieze, and alsoin the smaller cornices of the octagonal stages, butthis, in Dalmatia, is no evidence of extreme anti-quity, and it is combined with other details ob-viously not older than the fourteenth century. Thesilver gilt pala is evidently not in its original state :it no longer fills up the width between its cabledmargins, and the central cusps are imperfect. Itcontains three rows of figures ; in the top middlepanel is our Lord, in the middle panel below him isS. Trifone with the model of Cattaro already men-tioned, and the panel below him is blank, beinghidden by the tabernacle for the host. These cen

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