The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 107
he upper hand for a time.During the eighth and a part of theninth century, these fanatics destroyeda great number of works of art, both atConstantinople and in the provinces ofthe Empire. The Byzantine sculptorsand mosaicists had to quit their nativeland, and some of them came to workat… … FIG. 148.—VIEW OF ST. SOPHIA ATCONSTANTINOPLE. of great prosperity and military gloryfor the Byzantine Empire. It was also, to a certain degree, aperiod of intellectual renaissance, forthe best manuscripts of the Greekwriters date from this time; there waseven an attempted reaction of…
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