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Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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^^ am bos of Cosmatesque work, together with the marblescreen east of it from side to side of the church, had beendismantled, but has lately been restored with the oldmaterials, and now shows the ritual arrangement of earlytimes. Of the plutei that form the enclosure one hasthe Byzantine peacock with trees, now set upside down,and another a diaper of intersecting circles, which has alsoan Eastern look. The pavements of opus Alexandrinuniare among the most beautiful in Rome. In the lunettes of the side arches, and in the wall ofthe apse and in the narthex were found pierced windowslabs, which are now exposed, and I think in some casesimitated,s. cie- The well-known church of S. Clemente on the Celian men e (Plate L) has preserved its ritual arrangements of choirand ambos with less alteration. The original church ^ Angeli, Le chiese di Roma. 2 Instauratis pluteis ac subsellis magnam partem excisis et eversis vetusschola cantorum ad pristinum decus renovata est anno domini M.D.CCCXCVlll.
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CH. XIIl) ROME 199 was destroyed durinef the sack of Rome by Robert s. cie- o / mente Guiscard in 1084. In 1108 Paschal II, instead ofre-building or restoring it, built an entirely new church onthe top of the ruins (Fig. 45), using again some of theold materials, among which were the CorOy or scholaCantorum with its ambos, the interesting Byzantine doorof the atrium and various antique sculptures. The westside of the choir walls has Cosmatesque inlays, but theothers are very Byzantine in style. They bear the SCLE?\EMT)C IR-OMyF* ■■■ present CHUKCH-JOS^-^^ SDJBT^KEAMEAN JD? 4 CEhfn

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