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. 1910 Excerpt: ...are now built up and in places destroyed altogether, were filled by transennae intended to transmit a modified light to the gallery, and fixed against the smooth strips which separate the two halves of the ellipse of the capitals. The basilica also of St. Demetrius (Vth century) in the same place has the upper part of ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...are now built up and in places destroyed altogether, were filled by transennae intended to transmit a modified light to the gallery, and fixed against the smooth strips which separate the two halves of the ellipse of the capitals. The basilica also of St. Demetrius (Vth century) in the same place has the upper part of the nave embellished with an arcade with engaged columns; but these too, before they were walled up, were filled by transennae intended to light the nave. The upper end of the nave opens into a spacious presbytery bounded at the further extremity by the apse (which is flanked by two niches taken out of the thickness of the outer wall), and in front by the piers of the chancel arch which support both the transverse and longitudinal arches of the presbytery, and also the two nearest arches of the nave. The presbytery of the original church was divided from the nave and aisles by a screen. Of this screen, and also of the altar and other ritual fittings, numerous marble fragments survive, now built up in the roughly constructed dwarf walls, furnished with seats on the inside, which were intended to form an outer partition for the actual presbytery, and also to separate its middle portion from the sides. These fragments, consisting of entire plittei, parts of plutei, cornices, and uprights, at first sight appear to be of the same date, but to a trained eye reveal work of two distinct periods. To the earlier belong, for example, the altar frontal (Fig. 169) and the fragment of a pluteus (Fig. 170) here illustrated. In the carving of this group we find, in the first place, the Pre-Lombardic characteristics of the first half of the VHIth century; e.g. the motive of crosses framed in pairs of arches which, with the pillars from which they spring, are s...
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