A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 208
ways, and which at first was based on clas-sical and Byzantine models, took a new directionunder 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 foliage.… … Romanesque inTECTFRE: fAPITAI.S OF PoRCH, ST. PETERS Chuuch, Northampton ; c. 1160. 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 because of its simplicity, andelaborated into a thousand richly…
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