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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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;the four capitals of the columns of the ciborium of the high-altar, which reveal the same chisel and the same epoch (seeFig. 122), are so many eloquent witnesses that the basilica musthave submitted during this century to radical innovations. Andin support of this assertion, and at the same time to assure our-selves that the three chapels and the present apsides are theonly intact remains of this rebuilding, we are so fortunate as to meet with the church ofAlliate (see Fig. 128), withits three chapels and itsapsides — i^erfectly iden-tical in their ensembleand leading characteristicswith those of S. Ambroise.Simple basilical forms, asthe excavations of 1869have proved, must havecharacterised its threenaves, separated by thir-teen columns on eachside.! In seeking, then, forthe Archbishop to whomthe merit of this great■n in« » ui-i . nu • • o \ u • f restoration might be at- FiG. 120.—Archbishop s Chair in b. Ambioise of _ ^ Milan—ixth Century. tributed, we are stopped,
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* All the stones which compose this altar are not of the ninth century. Severalare modern, imitating the Byzantine style. It is easy to tell that from the colour ofthe marble and the unsuccessful resemblance of the sculptures. t Apropos of this, see the recent publication of Landriani, entitled, La Basilicadi S. Ambrogio prima della sua trasformazione in chiesa a volte, wherein the authorhas reproduced some of the superannviated errors which I have here refuted, 238 in spite of ourselves, by the illustrious name of Angilbert (824-859), for legend, tradition, and an important monument haverendered it for ever inseparable from our basilica. Legend sur-rounds him with marvellous prodigies presumed to have occurredin the church itself, and tradition attributes to him the mosaicof the demi-basin of the aj)sis—a mosaic which certainly couldnot be a work of to-day. But all that, though the fruit ofimagination, tends, notwithstanding, to show us that Angill)ertmust have had a considerable s

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