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Title: Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889
Subjects: Architecture Architecture
Publisher: London : Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ones inseveral other places. Trieste.—We see two slight colnimns in the cathedral ofTrieste of more slender proportions, but of analogous taste,employed as best might be in a restoration of the eleventhcentury, but evidently belonging to the eighth. In the lower)jart they have a row of coarse leaves, here each cut in threeditlerent directions; higher up is the usual cutting of thecorners, and on the front a channelled convexity with meagrehoneysuckle ornaments supporting the abacus. PoLA.—Of the same kind, but wrought by a coarser andless correct hand, is a little capital in the museum of Pola, andalso another somewhat different but of the same style. Treviso.—The museum of Treviso has a rectangular basin,adorned with fine, large, and original leaves of wild acanthus,that shows the style of the eighth century, and so does a I lO little broken column with capital, that seems to belong to thesame family as the above-desciibecl. ToiiCELLo.—Several are to be seen in the museum of
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Fig. 42.—Parapet found at S. Augustine at Venice—Vlllth Century. Torcello ; they are for the most part Corinthian, with smootlileaves. One only, much mutilated, shows leaves with intaglio, I 20 -f(liiiCiatalII&.Jt!>a*.Jitetiil and much resembles others that we shall see in the museumof Brescia. There is also a fragment of a little pilaster,remains of some chancel, with hraidecl circles containing giran-dole-stars, roses, or crosses. It is surrounded by a curiousband, with little leaves turned face-to-face and curved. Venice.—A similar little pilaster I also saw in SignerDorigos depot of marbles; it was strengthened by a gracefulband, with leaves which alternated in curvilinear meanders.I also saw there a frag-ment of a parapet with aband and mixtilinear braid-ings, and a circle formed oflaurel-leaves, enclosing thesymbol of the evangelistS. Luke, very similar tothat of the baptistery ofCividale. A considerable fragmentof a parapet, in the styleof the pilastrini describeda

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