Of late work in Dalmatia the most remarkable is the Cathedral of Sebenico (described in Mr. Jackson’s work), built entirely in stone and marble, and without any brick or timber in its construction. It is a cruciform building, covered over by a waggon-vault of stone, visible both inside and outside. It was commenced from the design of Messer Ambrosia, a Venetian architect, in 1435, to whom may be attributed the nave and aisles up to the string-course above nave arches. The work was continued after 1441 by another architect, Messer Giorgio, also from Venice, who died in 1475, leaving the building still incomplete. The style of the work is late Venetian Gothic, influenced in its later portions by the Renaissance revival. The cloisters of the Badia at Curzola, and of the Dominican and Franciscan convents at Ragusa, are also beautiful specimens of late Italian Gothic.
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[1]. The first volume was published in 1865; the second in 1867.
[2]. ‘Mémoire sur les Fouilles exécutés au Madras’en,’ Constantine, 1873.
[3]. ‘Monumentos Arquitectonicos de España.’ Folio. Madrid, 1860, et seqq.
[4]. Parcerisa, ‘Recuerdos y Bellezas de España.’ Folio. Madrid.
[5]. ‘Gothic Architecture in Spain,’ by G. E. Street. Murray. 1865.