. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ues of the gods were no longer wanted, and the sculptors art was aban-doned. The removal, however, of the government to the Bosphorus retarded the declineof tlie empire in the East. Byzantium, on whose foundations was placed the city of Con-stantinople, owed its origin to a colony of Megarians ; and little was it to be imagined thatits disasters would have closed in so glorious a termination as occurred to it. The ancientcity still continued to poss
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ues of the gods were no longer wanted, and the sculptors art was aban-doned. The removal, however, of the government to the Bosphorus retarded the declineof tlie empire in the East. Byzantium, on whose foundations was placed the city of Con-stantinople, owed its origin to a colony of Megarians ; and little was it to be imagined thatits disasters would have closed in so glorious a termination as occurred to it. The ancientcity still continued to possess some splendid productions of the schools of Asia Minor, whicliit almost touched, and in common with which it enjoyed the arts. Constantine profitedby the circumstance, restored the monuments, and transported thither the best examples ofsculpture. 200. Architecture was called in by the emperor to aid him in affording security, conveni-ence, and pleasure to the inliabltants of the new metropolis. Vast walls surrounded the citv;superb porticoes, squares of every kind, a(picdufts, baths, tlieatres, hipjiodromcs, obelisks, Cmap II. ROMAN. 83. di b 1. Hrirl J « »??> — r^ r +? -r ——TT — .L_UJ H I I I I [f.: r:* H I 11- r , frTTT]-{TTTTTi;,^ !f;[TTTTT]JTTTt^ .J
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