How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 211
recious marbles and mosaics from the East, and moneyfrom the West, Venice built to her civic ideal magnifi-cently. To her patron saint, Mark, she built her cathe-dral. And as she was the Byzantium of trade in theselater days she built, oddly enough, in the style of thegreat Byzantine St. Sophia, in… … THE THIRD GREAT TRANSITION Roman, Greek, Gothic, and the new translation of theancient classic for the glorification of its ideals. But sodistinct was the identity of the city that out of each styleit created a variety of its own, each subtly harmonizingwith the others. Thus Venetian Gothic and…
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