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Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches (1896)

Cattaneo, Raffaele, 1861-1889 · London : Unwin · leaf 58

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ers, butwere evidently made for the basilica in a style of sculptureentirely Byzantine, like many of Eavenna, of Parenzo, andof Venice. We do not know if all the A^alls of the basilica were coveredwith mosaic by Pelagio II. Certainly the destroyed apsis was,and the frontal arch that is still… … ^R^ lie had made such reforms and innovations in the basilicathat he might almost be considered as its second founder.The plan of the old church of S. Laurence is develojied inanother basilica of the same city—S. Agnes-beyond-the-Walls.The basilica of S. Agnes, which so much resembles tliat of…

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