A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 235
efore itsarts had reached their culmina-tion. Origins. With the fall ofRome, in 476, Constantinoplebecame the chief city of Christen-dom in wealth, power, and cul-ture. Situated at the gates ofthe East, it was for centuries thegreat entrepdt of commerce be-tween Europe and Asia; andwhile it… … BuTTRESs Pier: Chapter House, Lu>-coln,c. 1270. 406 BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE tects of the Byzantine Empire, even iu itsEuiopean provinces of Tiinioe and MaceJon ;anil tiieir art was profonntUy influenced by tra-ilitions handed down from Assyria and Iersia,^in<l by familiarity witii the silks…
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