TORCELLO

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TORCELLO , an island of Venetia, Italy, in the lagoons about 6 m. to the N.W. of Venice, belonging to the commune of

Burano

BURANO

. It was a flourishing city in the early middle ages, but now has only a few houses and two interesting churches. The former cathedral of S. Maria was founded in the 7th century. The present building, a basilica with columns,

dates

DATES

from 864; the nave was restored in Ioo8, in which year the now ruined octagonal

baptistery

BAPTISTERY (Baptislerium, in the Greek Church 4wrurrilpiov)

was built. It contains large mosaics of the 12th century, strongly under Byzantine influence; those on the west

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

represent the Resurrection and Last Judgment. The seats for the priests are arranged round the semicircular

apse

APSE
APSE (Gr. alkir, a fastening, especially the
felloe
- FELLOE
of a wheel; Lat. absis)

, rising in steps with the bishop's throne in the centrean arrangement unique in Italy. Close by is S. Fosca, a church of the 12th century, octagonal outside, with colonnades on five sides and a rectangular interior intended for a

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

which was never executed, beyond which is a three-apsed choir. In the local museum are four Mycenaean vases, one found in the island and another on the adjacent island of Mazzorbo, proving direct intercourse with the Aegean Sea in prehistoric times.
See R. M. Dawkins, in Journal of Hellenic Studies (1904), xxiv. 125.

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