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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 62

An illustration from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado, 1887, leaf 62
s of red marble from Lustiza^ in theterritory of Cattaro support a canopy like thoseof Trail or Curzola, formed by a series of three re-ceding octagonal stages, with little columns carryingtrefoiled arches, and each with a sloping roof. Agilt angel surmounts the whole. It is wonderfulthat so… … 46 Cattaro: the Dnovio. [Ch. xxiil. On three of the four sides of the architrave whichrests immediately on the columns are figures sculp-tured in relief illustrating the legend of S. Trifone,the fourth side bearing only a Byzantinesque scroll.The figures are long, attenuated, and rude, butspirited.…

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