Lectures On the Rise And Development of Medieval Architecture volume 1
Lectures On the Rise And Development of Medieval Architecture volume 1
George Gilbert Scott
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Denis. capitals directly imitated from Classic remains around. 1 M. Viollet de Due views them all as being of this origin, calling them Gallo-Romaine, as distinguished from the Romanesque capitals found side by side with them. I view those, however, I am treating of as distinctly Byzantine, and the following facts suggest a route by which the purely Byzantine foliage may have reached the north of France. The Church of St. Mark, at Venice, was erected be- tween the years 977 and 107 r, and its c...apitals are, many of them, precisely of the kind I am naming (Fig. 22), and are also identical with many at Constantinople (Fig. 23). No one who has had a training in drawing the Corinthian capital will fail to recognise at Venice that variety of the acanthus by which he has been accustomed to dis- tinguish the Greek from the Roman Corinthian. Ac- cording to M. De Verneill, the Church of St. Frond, at 1 A better acquaintance with southern buildings does not wholly remove this difficulty. The Greek and Roman types seem to be a good deal mixed in them.
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