. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Mmmmh m^m -&uM .•THv* cW-HHW-4 V,-., ,,..-,. •*-T?3Ftf. /L_ g/^3T! jJOMliMM^ ^VSS^IgUj ^ :.rmm. Plate XXVIIT.—The Church of St. Basil at Moscow. 240 THE BYZANTINE STYLE. cathedral of St. Mark, and dedicated to Divine Wis-dom. From that time Byzantine buildings increasedenormously throughout the country, and continuedto do so until the fifteenth century, though large num-bers were destroyed in the thirteenth century duringthe irruptions of the Tartars. In the year 1453 Constantinople and the EasternEmpire fell, Mohamm
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Mmmmh m^m -&uM .•THv* cW-HHW-4 V,-., ,,..-,. •*-T?3Ftf. /L_ g/^3T! jJOMliMM^ ^VSS^IgUj ^ :.rmm. Plate XXVIIT.—The Church of St. Basil at Moscow. 240 THE BYZANTINE STYLE. cathedral of St. Mark, and dedicated to Divine Wis-dom. From that time Byzantine buildings increasedenormously throughout the country, and continuedto do so until the fifteenth century, though large num-bers were destroyed in the thirteenth century duringthe irruptions of the Tartars. In the year 1453 Constantinople and the EasternEmpire fell, Mohammed II entered Sta. Sophia onhorseback, and Byzantine architecture was at an Gothic style controlled the West, the Saracenicthe East, and even Russia, who hitherto had employedonly Greek artists, was overrun with Italian and otherarchitects, who, though they retained the main fea-tures of the Byzantine school, introduced new formsdetrimental both to the beauty and to the purity ofthe style. The cupolas took on the bulbous form of Moorishmosques and the belfries would have been more ap-propriate as minarets in Cairo or Ispahan. Archi-tecture became the work o
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