Ecclesiastical art in Germany during the middle ages (1873)
Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826-1893, Wheatley, L. A. (Leonard Abercrombie), 1835-1895 · Edinburgh, T. C. Jack; [etc., etc.] · leaf 33
o a language of form which completes and distinguishes the Byzantine character. The details of the Byzantine style are, indeed, in the first place, also based on ancient models, but they follow the Greek manner of treatment more than the Roman. This is shown especially in all ornament, which with… … Fig. io.— Capitals in St Vitale at Ravenna. of drawing, which, although executed with great tech- nical skill, was spiritless and insipid, d his change ap- pears principally in the acanthus leaf, and such a foim covers the fiats of the capitals and even the walls in certain places. The capital \…
Church architecture · Church furniture
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