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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Fig. 91-—Capital of R. Maiia-in-Domnica, Rome—a,d. 817-824.
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Fig. 92.—Farapet of the Churcli ofB. Sabina, Eome—a.d. 824-827. •<^5 by pillars. There is also another enriched l)y many little squaresframed in braids, and having, in the .first zone, doves ; in thesecond, peacocks; iti the third, vine-leaves; in the fourth, theusual hadly-sculptured heart-shaped bunches of grapes. Itreminds one both of the ambos of Ravenna and the gates ofthe old chancel of S. Maria-in-Vallc at Cividale. After Paschal I., the Pope of the ninth century, whosename lives best in his works, is Gregory IV. (a.d. 827). He rebuilt the church of S. Mark, of which the apsis mthits mosaics still remains. Every other part has been repeatedlyremade and transformed in the centuries that preceded theeleventh. Only one sculpture of the style of the ninth century,very probably a remnant of Gregorys work, is presei^ved in theportico of the church. It is a fragment of a parapet coveredwith osier-circles knotted together, and enclosing rayed orgirandoled roses. To Gregory IV.

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