. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. way through Germany from the shoresof the Baltic, overran the whole of Italy, so that theemperors were forced to confine their encourage-ment of art to Constantinople, where the Byzantinestyle was developing, and though Christian archi-tecture still continued to increase at Rome under thePopes, no radical steps in advance were taken. Butat Pavia, the town chosen by the conquerors for theircapital, and in other subjugated cities, architecturereceived a new impulse and so many innovationsthat it is sometimesclassified separa
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. way through Germany from the shoresof the Baltic, overran the whole of Italy, so that theemperors were forced to confine their encourage-ment of art to Constantinople, where the Byzantinestyle was developing, and though Christian archi-tecture still continued to increase at Rome under thePopes, no radical steps in advance were taken. Butat Pavia, the town chosen by the conquerors for theircapital, and in other subjugated cities, architecturereceived a new impulse and so many innovationsthat it is sometimesclassified separately,and called the Lom-bard style. The Lombardswere great churchbuilders and theirarchitecture is main-ly confined to thatbranch. These churches combinedthe plan of the Ro-man basilica withthe cupola of the By-zantines, and cryptswere invariably added, and donated with saintlybones plundered or bought from the catacombs ofthe Eternal City. The most salient architecturalfeatures have been briefly summed up by Mr. GailyKnight, and, still more briefly, are as follows :. Fig. 97.—Specimen of Lombard archi-tecture. 252 EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Externally appeared, a greater increase of ornamen-tation ; the carrying up of compound piers or but-tresses from the ground to the eaves; small open or
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