A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 240
fore itsarts had reached their culmina-tion. Origins. With the fall ofRome, in 47t), Constantinoplebecame the chief city of Christen-dom in wealth, power, and cul-ture. Situated at the gates ofthe East, it was for centuries thegreat entrepGt of commerce be-tween Europe and Asia; andwhile it… … Buttress Pier: Chapter House, Lincoln,c. 1270. 406 BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE tects of the Byzantine Empire, even in itsEuropean provinces of Tiirace and Maeedrm ;and tlieir art was profoundly intlucneed by tra-ditions lianded down from Assyria and Persia,and by familiarity with the silks and other…
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