DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.29898#0582
546
BYZANTINE-LOMBARDIC ARCHITECTURE.
Pakt II.
not qiiite to be clepended upon in every respect, but still affording
a very fair representation of what the arrangeruents of the circular
^vooden roofecl churches were. Its climensions are much less than
those of San Stefano, being only 115 ft. in cliameter; but it is more
regular, the greater part of its materials being apparently original,
and made for the place they occupy. In the church of San Stefano,
the tomb-shapecl circular form was probably used as symbolical of
his martyrclom. That at Perugia was most likely originally a
baptistery, or it may also have been declicated to some martyr ; but
in the heart of Etruria this form may have been aclopted for other
reasons, the force of which we are
harclly able at the present day to
appreciate, though in all cases locality
is one of the strongest influencing
powers in so far as architectural forms
are concernecl.
At Nocera dei Pagani, on the road
between Naples ancl Salerno, there is
an extremely beautiful circular church,
built undoubtedly for the purpose of
a baptistery, and very similar in plan
ancl general arrangement to the tomb
of Constantia, now known as the
Baptistery of Sta. Agnese, tliough
somewhat larger, being 80 ft. in
cliameter. Its principal merit is the
form of its dome, which is not oxdy correct in a scientific point of
view, but singularly graceful internally. Externally this builcling for
the first time introcluces us to a peculiarity which hacl as much
influence on the Western styles as any of those pointed out above.
427. Pinn of Baptistery at Nocera dei Pagani.
Double tbe usual scale, or 5U ft. to 1 in.
BYZANTINE-LOMBARDIC ARCHITECTURE.
Pakt II.
not qiiite to be clepended upon in every respect, but still affording
a very fair representation of what the arrangeruents of the circular
^vooden roofecl churches were. Its climensions are much less than
those of San Stefano, being only 115 ft. in cliameter; but it is more
regular, the greater part of its materials being apparently original,
and made for the place they occupy. In the church of San Stefano,
the tomb-shapecl circular form was probably used as symbolical of
his martyrclom. That at Perugia was most likely originally a
baptistery, or it may also have been declicated to some martyr ; but
in the heart of Etruria this form may have been aclopted for other
reasons, the force of which we are
harclly able at the present day to
appreciate, though in all cases locality
is one of the strongest influencing
powers in so far as architectural forms
are concernecl.
At Nocera dei Pagani, on the road
between Naples ancl Salerno, there is
an extremely beautiful circular church,
built undoubtedly for the purpose of
a baptistery, and very similar in plan
ancl general arrangement to the tomb
of Constantia, now known as the
Baptistery of Sta. Agnese, tliough
somewhat larger, being 80 ft. in
cliameter. Its principal merit is the
form of its dome, which is not oxdy correct in a scientific point of
view, but singularly graceful internally. Externally this builcling for
the first time introcluces us to a peculiarity which hacl as much
influence on the Western styles as any of those pointed out above.
427. Pinn of Baptistery at Nocera dei Pagani.
Double tbe usual scale, or 5U ft. to 1 in.