A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 340
sthe whole apse is covered with a splendidand well-preserved mosaic on gold groundfull of pictures of the virgin and saints,among them Euphrasius himself. Theapse is round within and polygonal with- 276 PAEMA out, shows six faces, and so has a iiier inthe middle. A rich bahUicchiuo of tlicXIII… … Fig. 137.—Parenzo, Cathedral. sej)t arms, one now used as the choir, andon the north side a series of small chap-els, curiously arranged, and perhaps old-er than the basilica itself. They show atrefoil of apses, round within and polyg-onal without, and, like the great apse,presenting an exterior…
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