Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 242
le in those two monumentsof the Ostrogoths which have remained in the most perfect stateof preservation. The first of these, the structure now forming thefacade of the cloister of the Franciscans at Ravenna {Fig. 107), isnot known with absolute certainty to have been a part of the * G. Cordero di… … Palace of Theodoric; but the helpless imitation of such Romanstructures as the portal of Diocletian at Spalatro, and probablyalso the palace of the last emperors of the Western Empire atRavenna, lead us to consider it rather as a first attempt of theGoths than as a previous Roman or a subsequent…
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