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Title: History of mediæval art
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919 Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920
Subjects: Art, Medieval
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ome, barrel-vaulted transept, and double narthex; and finally,the Church of the Saviour, Kahrije Jamissi, erected in the eleventhcentury on the foundations of a building of the age of Justinian,in which the general arrangement is made less clear and organicby the addition of a chapel (parekklission) upon the right side,whereby the transept is much cramped, the side apses quite iso-lated, and the entire interior disfigured. This building, with its EXTENSION OF BYZANTINE ART. 63 six cupolas, has become of especial importance to the history of artas the only church of Constantinople in which the mosaics andpaintings upon the vaults and tympanons, the marble revetmentsof the lower wall surfaces, and the ornamental reliefs of the archesand capitals, have not been destroyed by the fanatical vandalismof the Turks. Although some of the good qualities of Justinianswork were still retained, the general effect is so commonplace andmechanical that but little delight can be taken in these remains.
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,•-,,, i^l— Fig. 36.—Plan and Section of the Pantepoptes Church in Constantinople. Unthinking continuance in one rut was inevitable in the nationwhich developed Byzantine architecture, and resulted from the des-potism and slavish subjection, the dogmatism and passive receptionof ecclesiastical doctrines, which characterized the civilization ofthe Eastern Empire. The Byzantine style was a combination of Oriental and Occi-dental elements which had been united on the shores of the Bos-porus. When once its chief characteristics had been determined 64 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. it was transferred, unchanged, to the most remote provinces. Fivehundred years after Roman culture had embraced the entire civil-ized globe, and affected even semi-barbarous tracts, the influenceof Byzantium was similarly extended over the greater part of theworld then known, and to lands previously quite uncivilized. Thecentre of culture had been removed somewhat farther eastward,but the exte

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