to have been the principal
factor in its production; and, though the shores of the Adriatic were
not the district in which its greatest triumphs were achieved, it was
here that the fruitful union first took place which at various periods
since has rejuvenated the dulled artistic senses of the Western peoples
with the exciting stimulus of mysticism, of the unfamiliar, of that
charm of colour and gorgeousness of effect, which are characteristic of
the products of the Oriental imagination.

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INDEX

A

Adriatic, Boundaries, 2
" Mountains of the eastern coast, 2
" Physical data, 1-4

Alp, or Mora, 17

Andreaccio Saracenis, 379, 384

Antiquities found at Aquileia, 37, 39;
Cattaro, 379;
Grado, 46;
Ossero, 185;
Pola, 157;
Risano, 371;
Salona and Spalato, 305, 306;
Trau, 266;
Trieste, 62, 64, 66;
Zara, 215, 216

Aquileia, 23
" Antique remains, 25, 36-39
" Baptistery, 36
" Campanile, 35
" Carved work of ninth century in the cathedral, 27, 29
" Carved work of fourteenth century in the cathedral, 31, 32, 33
" Cathedral, 25, 26-34
" Chiesa dei Pagani, 36
" Choir of the cathedral, 33
" Crypt of the cathedral, 31
" Early Renaissance work in the cathedral, 33, 34
" Frescoes of eleventh century in the cathedral, 30
" History, 24, 25, 32
" Mosaics found below pavement in the cathedral, 26, 27
" Museum, 36-39
" Narthex, 35
" Objects from the treasury at Goerz, 34, 35
" The patriarchate, 24, 25, 39, 40

Arbe, 192
" Campanile of cathedral, 198
" Cathedral, 194-198
" Chapel of the Campo Santo, 199
" Church of S. Andrea, 198
" Church of S. Giovanni Battista, 199
" Convent of S. Eufemia, 199
" History, 193, 194
" Mediaeval houses, 193
" Reliquaries in the cathedral, 195-198
" S. Pietro in Valle, 200

Arca of S. Marcella, Nona, 242
" S. Simeone, Zara, 235

Artistic resemblances in buildings on both shores, 402

Ascrivium (Cattaro), 370

Avar inroads, 189

B

Besca Nova, 176
" Drive to Veglia, 177

Besca Valle, Glagolitic inscription in S. Lucia, 178

Bocche di Cattaro, 369, 372-378
" History, 369-372

Bora, 4

Borgo Erizzo, 243

Brazza, 317, 318
" Knocker on Casa Nisiteo, Bol, 318
" Tintoretto at Bol, 318

Brioni Islands, 131