Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 130
ustly esteemed as one of the masterpiecesof Roman architecture — were sculptures which were pilferedfrom the Arch of Hadrian; and the evil example thus set waseagerly followed by the Christian architects. This use of second- This pilfering of art works has been, indeed, characteristic of Roman… … Ii.L. 3-1. ^ Fiivadc of the Temple at Atil. (Kestoration based on IJutlers Measureiuents) PILFERED MATERIALS hand materials becomes, in fact, the dominating characteristicof Early Christian art (111. 38). New stone seems to have beenquarried only when no ancient monuments were at hand to…
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