This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...the decorations of the narthex. The The usual double narthex here assumes unusual pro narthex portions, and quite predominates over the church to which it forms the vestibule. The outer narthex is six bays long, each bay being covered with a domical vault, and the entrance door has a red marble frame of a usual ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...the decorations of the narthex. The The usual double narthex here assumes unusual pro narthex portions, and quite predominates over the church to which it forms the vestibule. The outer narthex is six bays long, each bay being covered with a domical vault, and the entrance door has a red marble frame of a usual Byzantine section. On the outside the bays are divided by half columns which now carry nothing, but may once have carried arches of brick like those in the front of the Pantocrator (Plate XX). The whole structure seems of brick, the elevation is not great, and the facade generally is very inferior to that of S. Theodore the Tiro. A door with a similar frame of red marble leads to the inner narthex where two of the bays have real domes on pendentives. The central door thence to the church has on the inside a cornice prettily carved with birds and foliage. A side doorway has one marble jamb lining made out of an earlier fragment representing a door with deeply sunk panels and in the centre of each panel was once some carving, now defaced. This resembles, and is probably coeval with a marble screen panelled in the same way, that crosses the south gallery at S. Sophia. Mosaics But the most remarkable thing in this church is the mosaic decoration of the two nartheces, which very fortunately is dated, and so fills an important place in the history of pictorial art. It is extremely like the work of the Italian primitive painters, Cimabue, Giotto, and Memmi. The faces are modelled a good deal, and there are attempts at foreshortening and expression very unlike the character of the older mosaics of the 5th or 8th centuries. There is no name or monogram of the artist, --church of for there seem to have been more than one, as the work is unequal, --but the donor .
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