. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Fig. iiS. Arch-buttress. so WORDS USED IN material, since we learn from Pliny that thebyssus cloth which he calls linuin byssiintm wasexceedingly dear. Everything leads us to sup-pose that it was a linen material of the finestquality. This opinion would seem to be con-firmed by Herodotus and yEschylus.
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Fig. iiS. Arch-buttress. so WORDS USED IN material, since we learn from Pliny that thebyssus cloth which he calls linuin byssiintm wasexceedingly dear. Everything leads us to sup-pose that it was a linen material of the finestquality. This opinion would seem to be con-firmed by Herodotus and yEschylus. The wordcomes from the Hebrew hutz. Byzantine Pe-riod. Time, about6th to 12th cen-tury A. D. {Byzan-tium, the Latinname of Con-stantinople. ) By-zantine Archi-tecture is note-worthy for a bolddevelopment ofthe plan of Chris-tian places of wor-ship. It intro-duced the cupola,or dome, whichwas often sur-. Fig. 119. Byzantine Font.
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