Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . ^ think of the epoch of those figures and those orna-ments, this is certain—that they breathe forth the renaissanceof Byzantine art in the tenth century. Before then sculpturesinned rather by heaviness than lightness ; afterwards just thereverse was the case; and those saints seem copied from someof those many bas-reliefs in ivory, that were then produced bythousands in Greece, and circulated through the whole here is the most eloquent proof that neither the stuccodecorations nor the e
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . ^ think of the epoch of those figures and those orna-ments, this is certain—that they breathe forth the renaissanceof Byzantine art in the tenth century. Before then sculpturesinned rather by heaviness than lightness ; afterwards just thereverse was the case; and those saints seem copied from someof those many bas-reliefs in ivory, that were then produced bythousands in Greece, and circulated through the whole here is the most eloquent proof that neither the stuccodecorations nor the existing edifice can be attributed to the ¥. i^^kV :\^.^K
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