The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 441
tion of its churches, the ruins 376 ARCHITECTURE. of the ancient temples, it generally happened that the architect, conforminghimself to new requirements, endeavoured, by a prudent return towards thetraditions of the past, to avoid those striking incongruities which would havedeprived of all their… … Fig. 296.—Church of St. Vital, at Ravenna. Byzantine style. (Sixth Century.) case in which, as in the old Roman city, Christian basilicas might be builtwith the marble of heathen sanctuaries—the monuments of this same Romewere still the only models that presented themselves for imitation.…
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