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Title: Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f S. Maria inCanneto, built by St. Maximian, the archbishop ofRavenna under whom so many buildings wereerected in that city during the reign of Justinian.S. Maria in Canneto was consecrated in 546. Itwas a basilican church with a nave and aisles, theaisles being raised two steps above the nave. Thenave ended with an apse, but the aisles instead ofhaving apses terminated each in a circular chamber,of which Dr. Kandlersaw the ruins. Twochapels in the formof a Greek cross stoodright and left of theeastern end, one ofwhich remains in thegarden of a modernhouse and is still usedas a church. It isquite plain, and con-tains no architecturalfeatures except a smallpanel of Byzantine workmanship (Fig. 105), which is now built over thedoor, but is evidently not in its original place. Itmay be compared with a similar panel which belongedto the Byzantine church of S. Stefano at Ragusa (vid.supra, vol. i. p. 214, Plate I, Fig. i). The rest of thismagnificent basilica, with its marble columns mosaic
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POLA Fig. 105. 302 Pola: S. Maria in Canneto. (Ch. xxx. pavements and Byzantine sculpture, has entirely dis-appeared, and the very site is covered with housesgardens and workmens yards. Its ruin began withthe Genoese invasions in the fourteenth century ; inthe next century its marbles and bronzes were carriedto Venice for the adornment of the churches there,and there is documentary evidence that at a stilllater date, in 1545, Sansovino was sent by the Senateto take away the marble columns of S. Maria For-mosa (di Canneto) and bring them to Venice,substituting in their j^lace piers of brickworksSansovino seems to have executed his task so far asthe removal of the marble columns, but not to havereplaced them by the brick piers, so that the actualdemolition of the church may be dated from thisevent. Its spoliation however was not yet com-j)lete, for in 1605 the Venetians transported hencethe four magnificent columns of oriental alabasterthat now stand against the apse wall of St. Marksbe

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