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Title: Ravenna, a study
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Xl^^/^r/ljlj 4 A igS RAVENNA Within the great octagon formed by the walls is a smalleroctagon formed by an arcade of mighty piers which upholdsthe cupola. This arcade contains a double loggia which thusruns round the whole church with the exception of the pres-bytery, where it ends in lofty tribunes. It is upheld betweenthe piers by columns of precious marble having capitals ofthe most marvellous beauty. The space within this inner octagon is covered with a pave-ment laid down in the sixteenth century, consisting of allsorts of fragments of mosaics and marbles which that centurydestroyed. The upper loggia was of old the gyneceOy the placeof the women. Nothing I think left to us in the world is moresumptuous and gorgeous than this interior. Everywhere areglittering mosaics, precious slabs of marble, priceless columnsof beautiful marble. And where the mosaics have beendestroyed or left unfinished, as in the cupola and the bodyof the church, baroque artists have filled the place withthei

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