Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 47
CHAPTER IV. BYZANTINE ART. We may take as the next period for illustration the centuries that witnessed the break up of the old Roman constitution and the gradual formation of a new order of society down to the end of the first ten centuries of our era. Seven hundred and fifty years out of those… … from Constantinople. Art of these centuries is called Byzantine. The woodcut is from the chair of St. Peter in Rome, the oldest and most interesting relic of antique furniture in existence ; that is, of furniture made of wood and kept in use from the days of ancient Rome. But it has had repairs and…
Furniture · Woodwork
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