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NUMEROUS fragments of ornaments and animals in the same ITALO-BYZANTINE style are set into the wall of the atrium of the church of SANTA MARIA DELLA VALLE, where they may be easily compared with the genuine Byzantine figures and stucco ornament inside its portal, which were probably executed for PELTRUDA, wife of a duca di FRIULI, who founded the adjoining monastery, by some of those artists who took refuge in ITALY during the ICONOCLASTIC war.
THE ARCHIVOLT of the portal is completely covered with a vine, boldy modelled in open work.
ABOVE IT are six LIFE-SIZE statues of
SS.
ANASTASIA
AGAPE
CHIONIA
IRENE
CHRYSOGNUS
ZOLIES
whose long proportions, rigidity of pose, and peculiar type of face give them the appearance of the saints represented in BYZANTINE MOSACIS and ivories.
THEY wear crowns upon their heads, and are clothed in fitting robes, whose borders are ornamented with gems disposed in regular patterns.
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