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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: Grado, Island of Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) Dalmatia (Croatia) Croatia -- Slavonia Montenegro
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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at we at last stoodbefore the patriarchal basilica, after more wrongturns and mistakes than might have been thoughtpossible in so tiny a city. The exterior as usualhas little to recommend it. The walls are brilliantwith whitewash and quite devoid of architecturalfeatures. The west front (vid. Fig. 125) is pre-ceded by an open porch which probably onceextended across the whole width, but is now cur-tailed by the campanile which is built against theend of the south aisle. The porch consists of amere rude arcade of four plastered arches, of whichthe middle pair are divided by a column with anill-fitting Byzantine capital, and the others by plainpiers. I think it extremely probable that therewas once an atrium further to the west, of which theexisting porch formed the eastern walk\ Exter- ^ Tlie body of Doge Pietro Candiano, who fell at Puntamica iu887, was conveyed to Grado and buried ^ in atrio Ucclesiae Gra-densis. Dandolo, lib. viii. c. vii. pars 2. Ch. XXXVI.) Grado : the Diiomo. 413
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Fig. 125. nally the church is naught; l^ut, the threshold oncepassed, the interior bursts on the view with sur- 414 Grado: the Dtiomo. (Ch. xxxvi. prising effect. The wide nave with closely-set ranksof marble columns on either hand carrying narrowsemicircular arches, and the apse which bounds theview eastward, proclaim the church a basilica of thesame class with S. Apollinare nuovo at Bavenna,and the Euphrasiana at Parenzo. Here it is truethere are no glittering mosaics on the walls, but thisis compensated by the surpassing splendour of thecolumns of bianco e nero marble, and the beauty ofthe mosaic pavements which cover the nave floor.Nor is there anything in either of the other churchesso sur2:)rising as the strange pulpit at Grado, raisedon lofty pillars, with rudely sculptured emblems onits embowed sides, and surmounted by a paintedcanopy or dome so oriental in its appearance that itwould not seem out of place in a Mohammedanmosque. Beyond is the apse covered with Gothicfresco-pai

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