. Architecture, classic and early Christian . jiiillll Fig. liJ3.—From the GoLbES Door of Jeuusaleji. TniE op Jusiinias. SCO. Eoman and the Byzantine models can be traced. Xomore characteristic specimens of Eyzantine foliage canbe desired than some to be found in Palestine, as lor ex- 120 CUniSTIAN ARCHITECTURE. ample the Golden Gate at Jerusalem, which we illustrate(Fig. 1G3); but in the deserted cities of Central Syria a. 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
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . jiiillll Fig. liJ3.—From the GoLbES Door of Jeuusaleji. TniE op Jusiinias. SCO. Eoman and the Byzantine models can be traced. Xomore characteristic specimens of Eyzantine foliage canbe desired than some to be found in Palestine, as lor ex- 120 CUniSTIAN ARCHITECTURE. ample the Golden Gate at Jerusalem, which we illustrate(Fig. 1G3); but in the deserted cities of Central Syria a. 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 archilects.
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