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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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nity of form, col-or, substance; inRavenna nothingis lost, everythinglasts on, and maysometimes bethought to wish,and be unable, tofade out, or evento grow old vis-ibly. Lean and ascet-ic Ravenna has acertain exquisiterigidity in itscharm, like thatof a crucifix—like that of thestrange, severe,and sumptuouscrucifix of en-graved silver disksin the Cathedral.The streets arelong and straight,with sharp angles,rarely a curve:you can lookhalf - way across the city, and see the light throughany one of its great gateways. Andthe houses are almost all flat; theyare large, severe, with iron bars over thelower windows; they have rarely a bal-cony or any exterior decoration. Thehouses of the Polentas or of the Traver-sal are only distinguished from the laterbuildings by a finer severity, by a fewrigid cornices or lintels, and by a moreheavily resistant way of leaning backfrom a base solidly planted in the earth.The very ruins, the ruins of the palace ofTheodoric, for instance, form level lines
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S. Vitale, Ravenna with the street, and bring no disturbingpicturesqueness into the pattern. And,in all this, there is a form of charm asinherent as in the severe art of mosaic.In Ravenna mosaic obtains a qualityhardly known elsewhere, a quality ofsoftness, almost a diaphanous quality.The colors of mosaic in Venice are thecolors of Venetian water, as it is stainedby clouds and by the hard bright reflec-tions of things: Venetian mosaic is waterturned to stone. But in Ravenna itscolors are those of the sky above them.I have seen, at sunset, a sky in which 622 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. I could distinguish the exact shades ofcolor, certain purples and reds and bluishyellows, which I had seen in the mosaicsof S. Vitale, in the birds and beasts andfruits in the central roof of the choirthere. I have seen, at sunset, the sub-tlest green of S. Apollinare in Classe, themalachite and lapis lazuli of the Baptis-tery of the Orthodox, alive and momen-tary in the sky above Ravenna. Ravenna is a cit

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