. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. Purely ornamental mosaics in opus alexandrinum also reachedhigh development, as we learn from a few scattered fragmentsthat have come down to us. One of these in the church ofHagios loannos, with its rolling and interlacing guilloches, curi-ously presages the work of the Cosmati at Rome; — a style ofmosaic still more vividly called to mind by a passage in PaulusSilentiarius, describing the now lost ambo at Hagia Sophia.* In general, the church furniture of Byzantine churches,to judge from the slig
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. Purely ornamental mosaics in opus alexandrinum also reachedhigh development, as we learn from a few scattered fragmentsthat have come down to us. One of these in the church ofHagios loannos, with its rolling and interlacing guilloches, curi-ously presages the work of the Cosmati at Rome; — a style ofmosaic still more vividly called to mind by a passage in PaulusSilentiarius, describing the now lost ambo at Hagia Sophia.* In general, the church furniture of Byzantine churches,to judge from the slight indications that we have, did not differwidely from that employed in the Early Christian edifices. Inthe marble pierced work slabs (111. 71) used in the choir screens,there was developed, however, a new style of decoration not onlybeautiful in itself, but destined to lead to great results long after ^Tov fi^v iirl Tpaxdovffi Sia^Kfpis old t€ Stvat ] tttj pivtaai KijKKoiffiv dT^/>^toOt, tt^ 5^ yeKiKXuv |Paibv d7roirXa7xS^Tos vweKTapvov<nv eXiyfiovs. — Descripiio Ambonis, 81. 102. 70. — lia>Ut Ciipital Iniiii THE CIRCULAR CHURCH in far-away India. These pierced work slabs were treated in afashion (juite characteristically Byzantine, with bands, guill-oches, interlaces, acanthus-leaves, crosses, and were copied in the screens of many of the Early Christianchurches of Italy. While ornament was making such rapid advances, the con-structive side of Byzantine architectuie remained at first un-changed. Until the end of the V century the basilican form ofchurch seems to have been well-nigh universally adopted; thearchitects contented themselves with merely adorning withmosaics and the new-found ornament the already well-estab-lished type of ecclesiastical building. But in the early years ofthe VI century, the Byzantine builders began to turn theirattention towards the circular church. The Early Christians, it will be remembered, had alreadyintrod
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