. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. n awkward,line, just as a line, and the corresponding tendency to turn every-thing — leaves, stems, bands, ribbons, even veins — into merelines. Two distinctly Byzantine motives that came to acquire greatprominence in the exterior adornment of buildings of the lateCarolingian and subsequent periods, were the pilaster strip andarched corbel-table (111. 92, 97), ornaments used ordinarily inconjunction with each other. These motives are not foundin the Byzantine buildings of Constantinople, but were
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. n awkward,line, just as a line, and the corresponding tendency to turn every-thing — leaves, stems, bands, ribbons, even veins — into merelines. Two distinctly Byzantine motives that came to acquire greatprominence in the exterior adornment of buildings of the lateCarolingian and subsequent periods, were the pilaster strip andarched corbel-table (111. 92, 97), ornaments used ordinarily inconjunction with each other. These motives are not foundin the Byzantine buildings of Constantinople, but were peculiarto that group of Ravennese churches of which we have so oftenspoken. Originating probably in decoration by means of blindarcades (111. 42), these motives were fully developed at Ravennain the VI century. From the VII until the IX they seem notto have been used. After that date, however, they were re-vived in Italy, being copied, doubtless, direct from Ravenna,and soon became the universal and characteristic decoration ofall Lombard churches. Unlike other Byzantine decorations, 162. i I > 1 ? f=f m\ III. i)7. —Section of S. (?.•Iso. Milan h^^ ^S GER]\IANIC ORNAMENT these remained for a time primarily (though not exclusively)Italian. It was only in a later age that they crossed the Alps,to become the common heritage of European architecture ofthe XI and XII centuries. Of the Germanic or new elements in Carolingian decoration,the most important was the system of triangular element shows itself in many different forms at varioustimes and places — at the Baptistery of St. Jean, Poitiers (), at St. Front, Perigueux, at Lorsch (111. 98), at St. Gene-roux (111. 99), and at the Basse Qiuvre of Beauvais (111. 96, ), etc. A series of equilateral triangles, forming zigzag lines,constitutes its basis. These triangles are sometimes part of themasonry, being stones of different colors inlaid (111. 98); some-times they are triangular arches resti
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