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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 442

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4°° Aquileja : the Duomo. [Ch. xxxv. as to be unintelligible, may be seen traces of Gothic painting, and an inscription in Lombardic lettering. In the centre is a good picture by Pellegrino di San Daniele in its original carved and gilt frame. In the centre of the east end is the patriarch’s … Fig. 123. throne of veined white marble inlaid with ‘ ser- pentino.’ The guide-books say it is only a work of the fifteenth century, but although it has certainly been taken to pieces and reconstructed more than once, it is undoubtedly made up of the parts of an ancient throne of genuine Byzantine…

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