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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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pello,with its fine original windows in the Via Rattazzi, not farfrom S. Domenico; it may stand as an example of many otherold houses in the Via Arcivescovado, but I must especiaUyname that beautiful Venetian house in the Via Ponte Marino—it is No. 15—the Casa Graziani with its lovely balcony, theCasa Baldini (Via Mazzini, 31) with its double loggia in thecorttle, the Casa Fabbri next door (No. 33), the Casa Zirardini(Via BeUe Arti, No. i), the Casa Baronio (Via Romolo Gessi,Nos. 6 and 16), and the Casa Ghigi with its lovely door andportico (No. 7 of the same street). Undoubtedly the greatest monument which the sixteenthcentury has left us in Ravenna is the church of S. Maria inPorto. This was built by the Canons Regular of the Lateran,the most ancient community of canons still extant, in theyear 1553, when for about fifty years they had been com-pelled to abandon the church of S. Maria in Porto fuorioutside the city, in the marsh. They not only furnished * See supra, p. 192. i; )
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The Cloister of S. Giovanni Evangelista 266 RAVENNA their new church, but to a considerable extent built it, out ofthe materials of S. Lorenzo in Cesarea, which they thusdestroyed. S. Maria in Porto as we see it has suffered from restoration,and the fagade is a work of the eighteenth century, butthe church itself remains a noble sixteenth-century buildingdivided within into three naves by huge pilasters andcolumns and covered at the crossing with a great octagonalcupola. There is, however, little that is very precious to beseen, a few fine marbles and the beautiful marble relief of theMadonna in prayer in the transept, called the MadonnaGreca, a Byzantine work probably brought to Ravenna,according to Dr. Ricci, at the time of the crusades. It wasoriginally in S. Maria in Porto fuori. The noble choir shouldalso be noticed and the beautiful ciborio. Close by the church is the Monastero of the Canons, withinwhich there remains the lovely cloister which should be com-pared with those at S

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