COMACINO: Cathedral of AQUILEJA

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THE MOST IMPORTANT of the COMACINE works is the

OCTOGONAL FONT in the Cathedral, which was erected by St. CALIXTUS, bishop of AQUILEJA, about 737.

The spaces between the slender columns with rude Corinthian capitals which support its roof are spanned by round arches, whose spandrils are adorned with CLUMSILY REPRESENTED Christian emblems.

THE BASES of the columns rest upon a marble parapet decorated with figures symbolical of the FOUR EVANGELISTS.

These figures and an ornate Greek cross with candelabra and palmettos are executed in RELIEF by lowering the surface of the stone around the clumsy outlines, within which the details are indicated by FURROWS dug out in the stone.