The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . SMALL MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL, ATHENS. Photo. Emery • Brim a Drawing by Sidney Bamsley. INTERIOR OF ST. LUKES, NEAR DELPHI. fl Showing a typical scheme of internal decoration. The lower parts of the walls are covered with marble, andthe upper surfaces and vaults with mosaics and paintings. Eleventh century. BYZANTINE ART 907 as the churches of St Sergi-us, the Holy Wisdom (St Sophia),and the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, and San Vitale atRavenna. We may best set an arbitrary point for the de
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . SMALL MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL, ATHENS. Photo. Emery • Brim a Drawing by Sidney Bamsley. INTERIOR OF ST. LUKES, NEAR DELPHI. fl Showing a typical scheme of internal decoration. The lower parts of the walls are covered with marble, andthe upper surfaces and vaults with mosaics and paintings. Eleventh century. BYZANTINE ART 907 as the churches of St Sergi-us, the Holy Wisdom (St Sophia),and the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, and San Vitale atRavenna. We may best set an arbitrary point for the demarca-tion of the new style midway between these two dates, withthe practical separation of the eastern and western empires. The style may be said to have arisen from the orientalizationof Roman art, and itself largely contributed to the formation ofthe Saracenic or Mahommedan styles. As Choisy well says, The history of art in the Roman epoch presents two currents,one with its source in Rome, the other in Hellenic Asia. WhenRome fell the Orient returned to itself and to the freedom ofexploring new ways. There was now a new form of society, theC
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