Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . be found in that curious magneticcommunication of new ideas which explains the simul-taneous, or almost simultaneous, appearance of changesin style in different districts and different countries, bothin architecture, painting, and sculpture. But it must beobserved as bearing on this question, that while Italianart rapidly progressed from Giotto to Raffaelle, Byzantine ^ Divenne cosi buon imitatore della natura che sbandi affatto quellagoflFa maniera Greca. Vasari, Vita di Dante, Purg, xi. 94. 136 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS [ch. ix S. Elias,Saloni
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . be found in that curious magneticcommunication of new ideas which explains the simul-taneous, or almost simultaneous, appearance of changesin style in different districts and different countries, bothin architecture, painting, and sculpture. But it must beobserved as bearing on this question, that while Italianart rapidly progressed from Giotto to Raffaelle, Byzantine ^ Divenne cosi buon imitatore della natura che sbandi affatto quellagoflFa maniera Greca. Vasari, Vita di Dante, Purg, xi. 94. 136 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS [ch. ix S. Elias,Salonica painting left to itself sank gradually into mere repetitionand stagnation. The tendency to decorate the outside of their churcheswent further at Salonica than at the Capital. The churchof S. Elias (Eski Serai Djami) is in the upper part ofthe former town, for as the Westerns dedicated theirchurches on the hill-tops to S. Michael, the Greeksdedicated theirs to S. Elias, the saint of Mount Carmel, S^ELIM-SALONEA Decora-tive brick-work. scAT-E or mr Fig- 33. perhaps with some allusion to the resemblance of theword 17X109. This church (Fig. t^t^) is cruciform andtrifoliate, with apses to the transepts as well as thechancel, and a short square nave of which the westernpart is much lower than the rest; forming a sort of ante-church, not the usual narthex. The exterior (Plate XXI)is now much disfigured with colour and whitewash, butthis does not conceal the elaborate patterns in brickwork Plate XXI y J I ! M
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