Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 282
ould have been carried so great a distance. Finally, had theByzantine ideas been imported from Constantinople, it is unaccountable that we should find inItaly no trace of the pendentive vault — the leading characteristic of the architecture of Byzantiumafter the building of Hagia Sophia. When in… … CHARLEMAGNE love of grotesque and humorous forms. Roman influencemakes itself felt in many capitals, crudely imitated from theantique, and in the continued preference for the basilican plan.(111. 8^2, 83, and 84.) During all this period the Carolingian house had been stead-ily Iising in power. When…
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