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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 57

An illustration from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado, 1887, leaf 57
. The capitals are carved withthe richest fancy of romanesque art, and consist ofan intricate mass of winged beasts and foliage inter-twined, elaborately undercut, and detached from thebell. In point of technical execution and ingenuityof design I know nothing in romanesque art to sur-pass them… … TG J Ch. XL] Spalato: the Dnomo. 45 hexagon, are carved with interlacing foHage like thatof the capitals. The floor of the pulpit is markedby a marble cornice of two richly carved members.The body of the pulpit above overhangs by theprojection of little columns of porphyry and rich

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