Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . the touch of a Greek handmay still be detected in details, the general style of theart henceforth shows little trace of Byzantine Another thing that tended to give a new direction too races jj-aHan art may be found in the extensive introduction offoreign elements into the population. Under Theodoricand his successors large numbers of Goths settled in thepeninsula. Two centuries of Lombard rule followed, andPaulus says that Alboin brought with him hosts of menof other nationalities, besides his own, who settled invillages well known in
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . the touch of a Greek handmay still be detected in details, the general style of theart henceforth shows little trace of Byzantine Another thing that tended to give a new direction too races jj-aHan art may be found in the extensive introduction offoreign elements into the population. Under Theodoricand his successors large numbers of Goths settled in thepeninsula. Two centuries of Lombard rule followed, andPaulus says that Alboin brought with him hosts of menof other nationalities, besides his own, who settled invillages well known in the 8th century. The characterof the race must have been largely affected by thisinfiltration of foreign blood, and in the fair hair and blueeyes that one sees especially in North Italy we may tracethe mixture of northern races with the old Gallic orLatin stock. ^ Unde usque hodie eorum in quibus habitant vicos, Gepidos, Bulgares,Sarmatas, Pannonios, Suavos, Noricos, vel aliis hujuscemodi nominibusappellamus. Faul. Diac, Lib. n. CHAPTER XV VENICE The only people on the west of the Adriatic who stillprofessed obedience to the Eastern empire in the9th century were the Venetians, who wisely preferred adistant and nominal sovereign to an active one close athand. When Pepin descended with his Franks to therescue of the Pope, and summoned the Venetians tosubmit they replied that they chose rather to be theservants of the king of the Romans^ and entrenchedbehind their marshes and lagunes they were able to defythe challenge. This detachment of Venice from theother Italian nationalities is reflected in her architecture,which from first to last has a character of its own distinctfrom that of the rest of Italy; and it is reflected no lessin her policy, which till she acquired a territory in Lom-bardy was marked by a certain aloofness that placed heroutside the great questions which agitated the neighbour-ing communes. The islands of the lagunes from Grado to Chioggiahad been the r
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