The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 93
rchitecture of the Em-pire went as far beyond the Greek in its power ofconception, as it fell below in artistic quality of exe-cution. Did the Greek race, under the masterfulstimulus of Roman influence and of the practicalrequirements of their time, furnish the conceptionsas well as the execution?… … SANTA COSTANZA—ROMKTime of Constaiitine 1 THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE I If we look back in the history of Kome to theaccession of Constantine, at the beginning of thefourth century, we shall remember that, thoughher prestige remained, influence and energy werelong gone out of her. The seat of influence…
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