Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 213
ristian style in Africa III. 65. — Plan of Aiu Tounga. (From ^„ i 1.1, • j. g^j^j. . ^ seems, however, to have come mto being at the flood tide of theConstantinian renaissance. The school is equally remarkablefor the retention of classic forms and details, and for itsextremely fine masonry. The… … The Early Christian style represents essentially an epoch ofdecay, an epoch when classical proportions were debased and for-gotten, when the builders, tooignorant or too indolent to seektheir own materials, made theirstructures a hodge-podge of stonesand columns pilfered from an- HIcient…
Architecture, Medieval
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