Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 224
theformer. Side by side with the contact with Greece there was even acloser contact with the Orient, for Constantinople was the gate-way of Europe, and across the Bosphorus lay Asia and all theglamour of the Orient. The East, then as now, was full of thecharm of rich ornament and of rich colors;… … T^ v -^ Y^i t ^ iw>j^^ III. G8. —Order and Spandrel of Ila^jia Si.pliia, (oM-hMiliiiniili. ■ Kroiii Salziiilier},) ORIENTAL COLOR a sense of its values such as hitherto had hardly been known inEurope. The Greeks, it is true, had lavishly used colors, andoften bright colors; but the tones…
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