A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 473
e Great in the West — all tendedso to disturb and depress theByzantine kingdon as to leavelittle leisure and less means forthe exercise of architectural mag-nificence. It is therefore hardlyprobable that we shall ever bein a position to illustrate the7th and 8th centuries as wenow know we can the… … 895. Half Section, half Elevation, of Dome ofSta. Irene at Constantinople. Bk. IX. Ch. IV. NEO-BYZANTINE STYLE. 453 now find it by Leo the Isaurian (a.d. 718-740). It differs in severalessential particulars from the old style, and contains the germ ofmuch that we find frequently repeated. The…
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