Comparative Art
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As Constantinople was the chief politi- cal center of this second branch of degenerate Roman art, the latter has become known as By- zantine art. Form and drawing in Byzantine art are usually bad, infantile, from any artistic stand- point. In decorative color, however,, the Byzan- tine artist, probably as the result of eastern in- fluence, showed a certain amount of feeling, and accomplished some good work.
Specimens of Byzantine art, or at least of what was probably due to its influence, are f...ound in a good many places on the Mediterranean. From Kabr-Hiram, near Tyr, in Syria, came some mo- BYZANTINE ART. 61 saics from the Church of Saint Christopher.^'' These are supposed to be Byzantine and altho not quite in the same style of drawing, yet they are some- thing like the mosaics from Carthage. Some By- zantine art also spread to Abyssinia.^* Saint Sophia in Constantinople is considered per- haps the finest example of Byzantine art. San Marco in Venice is the best known one, however, and it doubtless was built as the result of Venetian intercourse with Constantinople.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As Constantinople was the chief politi- cal center of this second branch of degenerate Roman art, the latter has become known as By- zantine art. Form and drawing in Byzantine art are usually bad, infantile, from any artistic stand- point. In decorative color, however,, the Byzan- tine artist, probably as the result of eastern in- fluence, showed a certain amount of feeling, and accomplished some good work.
Specimens of Byzantine art, or at least of what was probably due to its influence, are f...ound in a good many places on the Mediterranean. From Kabr-Hiram, near Tyr, in Syria, came some mo- BYZANTINE ART. 61 saics from the Church of Saint Christopher.^'' These are supposed to be Byzantine and altho not quite in the same style of drawing, yet they are some- thing like the mosaics from Carthage. Some By- zantine art also spread to Abyssinia.^* Saint Sophia in Constantinople is considered per- haps the finest example of Byzantine art. San Marco in Venice is the best known one, however, and it doubtless was built as the result of Venetian intercourse with Constantinople.
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