. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Flo. 1G4.—OayacH at TcraMAMt;? is Stria. 4x3 and 5tu cbniukT. group of exceptional ami most interesting buildings, bothsecular and sacred, exists, which, as described by De Vogiie,* * Syrie Ceiitrale. BYZANTINE. 221 seem to rlisplay a free and very original treatment bisedTipon Itonian more than Byzantine ideas. We illustratellie exterior of one of these, the chiircli at Turmanin(Fig. 1G4). This is a Luilding divided into a nave andaisles and with a vestibule. Two low towers flank thecentral gable, and it will he noticed that openings ofdepressed p
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Flo. 1G4.—OayacH at TcraMAMt;? is Stria. 4x3 and 5tu cbniukT. group of exceptional ami most interesting buildings, bothsecular and sacred, exists, which, as described by De Vogiie,* * Syrie Ceiitrale. BYZANTINE. 221 seem to rlisplay a free and very original treatment bisedTipon Itonian more than Byzantine ideas. We illustratellie exterior of one of these, the chiircli at Turmanin(Fig. 1G4). This is a Luilding divided into a nave andaisles and with a vestibule. Two low towers flank thecentral gable, and it will he noticed that openings ofdepressed proportion, mostly semicircular-headed, andwith the arches usually springing from square piers,mark the building; while the i;se made of columnsstrongly resembles the manner in which in later timesthey were introduced by the Gothic Fig. iGo.—Toweb of a Kussian CnuRcn. CHAPTER XIII. ROIIAXESQUE ARCHITECTURE. THE toiiu Eomanescjue is here used to indicate astyle of Christian, architecture, founded on llomauart, which prevailed throughout Western Europe from theclose of the period of hasilican architecture to the rise ofGotnic; except in those isolated districts where the influ-ence of Byzantium is visible. By some writers the signiii-cance of the word is restricted within narrower limits;hut excellent authorities can he adduced for the employ-ment of it in the wide sense here indicated. Indeed sumedifficulty exists in deciding what shall and what shall nuthe termed Romanesque, if any restricted definitionof its meaning is adopted; while under this general term,if applied broadly, many closely allied local varieties—as,for example, Lombard, Rhenish, Romance, Saxon, andKorman—can he conveniently included. The spectacle which Europe presented after the re-moval of the seat of empire to Byzantium and the in
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