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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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ne side is interruptedfor the entrance. Four of the sides are carved withthe four beasts of the Apocalypse, each displayingon his book the first words of the gospel he represents,except that St. Mark has no legend ; and on the fifthside towards the east is a large cross. Above is thecurious Arab-looking tester or canopy which givessuch a strange oriental air to the interior view ofthe basilica. It consists of six marble colonnettessupporting six ogee trefoiled arches, correspondingto the six sides of the pulpit below, on which restsa dome of brick plastered and painted red andwhite in scrolls and chequers. This upper partdates apparently from the fifteenth century, andmay have been imitated from the picturesque littlepulpit which rises oat of the northern ambo atSt. Marks, Venice. The date of the lower partis puzzling. Sorely as one is tempted to assignit to the earliest period of the church, and regardit as the pulpit of Patriarch Helias, the general 430 Grado: the Duomo. (Ch. xxxvi.
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Oh. xxxvi.) Grado: the Duoino. 431 impression left on the mind after careful examinationis that it is a work of the eighth or ninth centuryrather than of the sixth ^. Close by the duomo, on the north side, not asusual in early churches opposite the west end, is thebaptistery, a spacious octagon with an apse project-ing from its east side. It has been recently restored,and is now perfectly plain and devoid of archi-tectural features. In the yard behind still exist the foundations ofa small building with three apses (M, Fig. 125)paved like the church with mosaic, and connectedwith it by a walk also paved with mosaic, whichled to the doorway marked N, of which though it isnow blocked traces may be seen on the inside. Un-fortunately the whole is now covered over withearth and occupied by a masons workshop, so thatI was unable to have it excavated, and even thedimensions of the building are merely conjectural.This singular detached building, whose use it isdifficult to understand, may have

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