A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 203
ways, and which at first was based on clas-sical and Byzantine models, took a new ilirectionunder northern influences, abandoning the clas-sical types, the acanthus and basket work, for alavish development of animal forms, humanfaces and figures, even narrative scenes, andflorid interlacing… … Romanesque Architecture: C.\pitals or Porch, St. PetersChurch, Northampton; c. lltiO. we may see in S. Sophia at Constantinople andmany other Byzantine churches, was adopted bythe Germans both in the north and in Italy,probably at first Ijecavise of its simplicity, andelaborated into a thousand…
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