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The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 204

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t all had a share. After the firstChristian centuries there was a division of stylesas of empire. That singular combination of Greek,oriental, and northern elements which made theEastern Empire, made also the Byzantine style. Indue time grew up under the hands of the Teutonicraces that central… … ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE 155 of whicli the arcliitectures of England and Francewere variants. Somewhat later there germinatedseparately in Tuscany, where Italian characterremained ascendant, but with a large infiltrationof Teutonic energy and imagination, the littlestyle which we call the Tuscan…

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