Spalato : the Palace. 28 [Ch. xi. dwindling into the Gothic string-course 1. Among other novelties is the decoration by miniature arcading in the Porta Aurea (Fig. 28), which is, so far as I know, the earliest instance of an archi- … Fig. 28. tectural ornament that was to play so large a part in Romanesque and Gothic work, and which is but a few steps removed from the arcading in the Duomo at Zara built a thousand years later. The corbelling on which the colonnettes of this arcading 1 Adam, PI. xxii.
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