its ageand builder. Some writers of daring but uncriticalimagination have seen in these rough walls averitable temple of the polished age of Augustus,converted as they suppose to Christian uses byDonatus I, who was bishop of Zara in the fifthcentury. This theory requires no comment. An-other theory… … TG.J 5 Donato Ch. IV.] Zara: S. Donato. 257 been the model from which it was imitated, for thecomparative rudeness of the work at S. Donatopoints to a ruder and later age than that of Jus-tinian. The most probable theory is that thechurch was built by Bishop Donatus III, at thebeginning of the…
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