aves and flowers, we entered what is perhaps the loveliest cloister in Dalmatia (Plate XXXVII). Trefoiled arches resting on round columns with square capitals, and with a very ingenious stilt to give them sufficient importance and height, are divided by more massive piers into groups of three; and… … Ch. XVIII.] Ciirzola: the Badia. 275 without any appearance of fragility, and the resultis thoroughly successful. Here too, as so frequentlyin Dalmatia, occurs that happy mixture of Gothicand classic forms which is so suggestive to usmoderns who must of necessity be eclectic. Thecusped heads, the…
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