A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 208
nd which at first was based on clas-sical and Byzantine models, took a new directionunder nortlioni influences, abandcjning the clas-sical type.s, the acanthus and basket work, for alavish development of animal forms, humanfaces and figure.s, even narrative scenes, andflorid interlacing foliage. A… … Romanesque Architecture: Capitals of Porch, St. PetersChurch, 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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