New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 188
ers are rectangularwith barrel vaults. The exterior ornament consistsof engaged columns and arches. The capitals are 156 THE NINTH ROOM Corinthian in style, but in the cavetto cornices thereis an interesting survival from ancient Egyptianarchitecture. Above the case of masks, on the north side of… … FIG. 65. CAPITAL FROM MONASTERYOF ST. JEREMIASVI CENTURY A. D. pieces in this room. It is one of those instances inwhich a motive current throughout the Byzantineworld (compare the capitals of the lower arcades inHagia Sophia at Constantinople) develops a specialform in one country. Nearby, in the…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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