Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 92
n relief. The same peculiarities appearin a second form of the capital, common in Constantinople, of whichthere is but one specimen in Ravenna; in it the echinos is of a cir-cular or reeded horizontal section, and is covered with a fine net-work of conventionalized leaves and tendrils. A kind of… … Fig. 31.—Byzantine Capitals, from S. Vitale in Ravenna. of the East, not that of Rome, is further evident in the colored mar-bles of the shafts and in the patterns of revetments and of pave-ments. The bareness of the brick masonry may be compared tothe neglect of the exterior, so painfully felt in…
Art, Medieval
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