. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ical (or nearly so) with St. Marks in its plan; butall its constructive arches being pointed (Fig. 3, page 5),its general appearance diffors a good deal from that ofEastern churches—a difference which is accentuated bythe absence of the mosaics and other coloured ornamentswhich enrich the walls of St. INIarks. Many very olddomed churches and much sculpture of the Byzantinetype are moreover to be found in Central and SouthernFrance—Anjou, Aquitaine, and Auvergne. These are,however, isolated examples of the style having taken rootin spite of adverse
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ical (or nearly so) with St. Marks in its plan; butall its constructive arches being pointed (Fig. 3, page 5),its general appearance diffors a good deal from that ofEastern churches—a difference which is accentuated bythe absence of the mosaics and other coloured ornamentswhich enrich the walls of St. INIarks. Many very olddomed churches and much sculpture of the Byzantinetype are moreover to be found in Central and SouthernFrance—Anjou, Aquitaine, and Auvergne. These are,however, isolated examples of the style having taken rootin spite of adverse circumstances; it is in those parts ofEurope where the Greek Church prevails, or did prevail,til at Byzantine architecture chiefly flourishes. In Greeceand Asia Minor many ancient churches of ByzantinesLructure remain, while in Pussia churches are built to the BYZAXTIXE. 219 present day corrospouilincj to the general type of thosewhich have just been destribcd. In ancient builtlings of Syria the inducnce of both the ?•n:|M,.-|-] ..Vq. jiiillll Fig. liJ3.—From the GoLbES Door of Jeuusaleji. TniE op Jusiinias. SCO. Eoman and the Byzantine models can be traced. Xomore characteristic specimens of Eyzantine foliage canbe desired than some to be found in Palestine, as lor ex- 120 CUniSTIAN ARCHITECTURE. ample the Golden Gate at Jerusalem, which we illustrate(Fig. 1G3); but in the deserted cities of Central Syria a
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