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Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press

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Constan-tinople, others like those at S. Vitale which they greatlyresemble, and indeed they might have been cut by l82 PARENZO (CH. XII The apse Themosaicsand dado the same Byzantine hand\They carry a pulvino onwhich is the monogram ofEuphrasius, the bishop inwhose time the church wasbuilt, or rather re-built, andfinished as is supposed in 543- The apse is semi-cir-cular inside and polygonalout, with four large win-dows, and the peculiarityof a pier in the middleinstead of a window as weshould have had it; show-ing that the architectlooked to mural decorationfor his effect rather thanto painted glass as wenortherns do. It has stillthe hemicycle of seats forthe clergy with the bishopsthrone in the middle, andfinished at the ends withthe dolphin which occursin some of the details ofS. Sophia, Constantinople.The walls and vault arelined with mosaic, be-ginning with a dadoof porphyry, serpentine,opaque glass, onyx, burnt 1 They are illustrated in my Dalmatia, &*c. Vol, in. Cap. XXXI.
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PARENZO Fig. 38. riau XL

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