The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 244
leges, to engage in the studyand practice of architecture a sufficient number ofingenious youths who had received a liberal edu-cation. But, alas for all this magnificent misdirected en-ergy ! Of all the churches and palaces built by Con-stantine and his immediate successors at Constanti-nople not… … Fig. 80.—Church of Sergius andBacchus at Constantinople. 222 THE BYZAXT1NE STYLE. due to Moslem inroads and the Tartar invasions underTamerlane, we know from Zosimus that many of thebuildings erected under Constantine were so hastilyand carelessly constructed that they had to be takendown almost…
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