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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 459

An illustration from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado, 1887, leaf 459
of by the fact that some of the capitals are antique Roman ones, too small for the columns they stand on and evidently spoils from more than one Roman edifice, while other capitals are evidently original work of the Byzantine period worked specially for this building. Not only architectural… … FD. 126. Aquileja the patriarchs had made a fortress and built a splendid church at Grado, whither they used to retire in summer to avoid the heat. This church, however, seems to have been renovated if not re- built by the patriarch Helias2, whose episcopate 1 Dissertazione sulla scisma d’…

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