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Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado (1887)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 213

An illustration from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado, 1887, leaf 213
ish handiwork we had seen at Yrana. It is squarein plan, with a very well-proportioned dome resting onpendentives, which are made of that curious honey-comb or stalactite coffering which was invented bythe Arabs, adopted by the Turks, and seems almosta part of the Mahometan religion. The arches… … Iig- 54- 182 Dernis. [Ch. xvi. plan is spoiled by the addition of a nave and choir,which contain nothing worth noticing except twocapitals, which are evidently of Turkish handiwork,used second-hand in the Christian building (Fig. 54).They illustrate that ingenuity in geometrical orna-ment to which…

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