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 280
should 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. 82, 83, and 84.) During all this period the Carolingian house had been stead-ily rising in power. When…
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