[79] For illustrations, see Lecture III., p. 82, Figs. 20, 21.
[80] Many original capitals from the Sainte Chapelle are lying in the open air in the gardens of the Hôtel Cluny. The most precious morsels which can be conceived! (G. G. S. 1878.)
[81] When I wrote this, they were double-locked in the old schatzzimmer, but they are now displayed in the triforium gallery. (G. G. S. 1878.)
[82] I mean the Romanesque architecture of Lombardy: not that of the Lombard Kings, which was probably a mere version of the Basilican. See note on this subject to Lecture I. (G. G. S. 1878).
[83] The small secular Basilica, called the “Basilica Jovis” built, I think, by Domitian on the Palatine Hill, proves more clearly than any other building I know how directly our churches are derived from the old Halls of Justice. The recent excavations have shown both the marble cancelli which parted off the apse, and the altar within it for the administrative oath. (G. G. S. 1878.)
[84] Surely we may claim it now! (G. G. S. 1878.)
[85] For illustrations, see Lecture V. p. 199, [Fig. 121].
[86] For illustration, see “Digression concerning Windows,” inserted between Lectures VII. and VIII.
[87] So rapidly do fashions change that, though when I wrote the above I expected to be found fault with for speaking so well of late styles, I am now far behind the age! Sixteen years earlier I had done the same at the risk, nay, with the certainty, of being pronounced a heretic by some of the very persons who now think the latest Mediæval art the best, and that far later than Mediæval better still. (G. G. S. 1878.)
[88] Those who most despised the less foreign and the less early men, are, in many cases, those who have subsequently rejected all that was foreign, and all that was early; if not yet, all that is Mediæval. (G. G. S. 1878.)