How to Know Architecture; the Human Elements in the Evolution of Styles
How to Know Architecture; the Human Elements in the Evolution of Styles
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43), shows a most curi- ous Byzantine influence on the one hand and a prophetic foretaste of the Gothic on the other. You will at once notice the absence of the sculpture so lavishly used in the Southern churches we have seen, and the use of vari- colored stone as decorative substitute. We can hardly do justice to the mellow harmonies of the alternating courses of warm yellow and reds. The idea is distinctly Byzantine, and the parentage is even more apparent in the treatment of the pediment at ...the top that marks the end of the nave and the smaller open arches at the sides, which centre over the side entrances. All are strongly suggestive of the later development of the pointed Byzan- tine forms in Siena and Orvieto.
Notice that the central arches of the facade are not round, but slightly pointed. Here we have the pointed Gothic arch which we will find of so much importance later on. The development of the pointed from the round arch i^ an example of purely mechanical and utili- tarian evolution that carried with it, to supreme individuali- 107 FIG.
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43), shows a most curi- ous Byzantine influence on the one hand and a prophetic foretaste of the Gothic on the other. You will at once notice the absence of the sculpture so lavishly used in the Southern churches we have seen, and the use of vari- colored stone as decorative substitute. We can hardly do justice to the mellow harmonies of the alternating courses of warm yellow and reds. The idea is distinctly Byzantine, and the parentage is even more apparent in the treatment of the pediment at ...the top that marks the end of the nave and the smaller open arches at the sides, which centre over the side entrances. All are strongly suggestive of the later development of the pointed Byzan- tine forms in Siena and Orvieto.
Notice that the central arches of the facade are not round, but slightly pointed. Here we have the pointed Gothic arch which we will find of so much importance later on. The development of the pointed from the round arch i^ an example of purely mechanical and utili- tarian evolution that carried with it, to supreme individuali- 107 FIG.
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