Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 218
theformer. Side by side with the contact with Greece there was even acloser contact with the Orient, for Constantinople was the gate-way of Europe, and across the Bosphorus lay Asia and all theglamour of the Orient. The East, then as now, was full of thecharm of rich ornament and of rich colors;… … III. 68. — Order and Spandrel of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. (From Salzenberg) ORIENTAL COLOR a sense of its values such as hitherto had hardly been known inEurope. The Greeks, it is true, had lavishly used colors, andoften bright colors; but the tones employed (judging from thefaded traces that…
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