. The iconographic encyclopaedia of the arts and sciences . umns, capitals, friezes, and mouldings, wherein themain colors utilized were red and blue, together with occasional color-effect was heightened by the addition of paintings of sacred sub-jects on the extended wall-spaces afforded by the church-architecture ofthe Romanesque period. Gothic.—In Gothic architecture the coloring of details was less prac-tised, for the same reason that obtained in the case of Corinthian archi-tecture—namely, the smallness and the variety of the sculptured the capitals of Gothic columns
. The iconographic encyclopaedia of the arts and sciences . umns, capitals, friezes, and mouldings, wherein themain colors utilized were red and blue, together with occasional color-effect was heightened by the addition of paintings of sacred sub-jects on the extended wall-spaces afforded by the church-architecture ofthe Romanesque period. Gothic.—In Gothic architecture the coloring of details was less prac-tised, for the same reason that obtained in the case of Corinthian archi-tecture—namely, the smallness and the variety of the sculptured the capitals of Gothic columns the sculptured foliage was frequentlygilded, the ground being generally colored red, while the mouldings wereusually decorated with gilded stars upon a blue ground or with paintingsof figurative subjects. Wall-paintings also found a more restricted appli-cation, owing to the absence of the requisite wall-spaces. They werereplaced by the brilliant-colored light-effects produced by window-paint- Syrian Churches. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Pl.\tf - Choir of the church at froiD the Great Tomb-PyraiSepulchre (loth to I2th century) at Jerusalem. II. PI; Church at Tourmanin. 3- Choir of the churchof the Church of St, Simeon Styli 7. Detail from the Great at El-Barah. S. Plan of the Church of the H* ^^Jj lialat-Scmui. ? ??• the Cathedral at Bosira in ihe II a, Qualb-Lo + > church at QuallvLouzch. J. Capital from a church at Deir-Sela. 6. Capital from a church at Baciuoza.(41I1 cc»l»rl ^ -pi V 9- ri™ °f ilie Church of ihe Holy Sepulchre (7th cenlniy) al Jerusalem. 10. Plan of Ihe Church of the ».n. ? 01 the Calhp,lr,,1 „ n :_ .,. ., 13. Plan of the Cllurch of Ezra. 14. Plan of ihl^cliurch at Moudjeleia. r Italian CiuRCHES. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Plate 14.
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