Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 145
EARLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 141 work than anything else. Several varieties of basket capital have been found of Egyptian limestone, but this particular kind of capital, although examples are in the Cairo Museum, is always, I believe, of marble. There is an excellent basket capital of limestone in the… … Fia. 27. which, as said above, is Coptic, but the material is marble. Alto- gether there is already a great probability that the school of carving which developed the noble Byzantine orders was transferred to Constantinople from Egypt — probably Alexandria — by Justinian. Prototypes for some of the…
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