How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 87
e decadence of the pureGreek. The ideal which inspired the development of this in-teresting product was Christianity. Under the protection ofConstantine and his successors the new religion flourishedexceedingly. It is interesting that as the architecture waswarmed and colored by the Eastern… … FIG. 23—ST. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE images, a rule which was later to result in the separationof the Greek and Roman churches. Just as we might expect, when the Greeks of Byzantiumcame to build their churches they turned to their Easternneighbor, Assyria, for models. Throughout western…
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