Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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uch,writes in his journal, I will tell you in confidence thatI regret very little the impossibility of drawing in them,(i.e. the mosques of Stamboul) they seem to me to beill-built and barbarous^ Eliot Warburton, in his brilliantbook of Eastern travel, says, The mosque of St Sophia,with all its spoils, and the remains of such magnificenceas led Justinian to exclaim Thank God, I have beenenabled to outdo Solomon, scarce repays the trouble ofprocuring a special firman, and the troop of guards thatmust accompany you^ Others who have seen it com-plain that the proportions are too wide and low, and thatthe dome seems to come down upon you. This criticismis probably provoked mainly by the photographs of theinterior, which are always taken from the gallery in orderto embrace as much as possible in the field ; and seenthus the height no doubt does seem insufficient: but from ^ Extracts from Journal of C. R. Cockerell, R.A. Longmans, 1902.2 The Crescent and the Cross, vol. il. p. 375. Plate XV
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S. SOPHIA—CONSTANTINOPLEThe West Gallery CH. vi) S. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE loi the floor I, for one, felt no want of elevation, and theproportions seemed to me satisfactory. With one exception S. Sophia is the only great Historicalbuilding in Europe which has endured and been in tions ofconstant use for nearly 14 centuries. The Pantheon is °^ ^^older, but it has no associations; while S. Sophia is apart of all that has made Constantinople memorable inthe worlds history. Wandering, as I did alone oneevening, in the gathering dusk, through the vast desertedgalleries, when the Arab chant below had ceased, and theworshippers had departed, it seemed a strange hauntedplace. It was as still as death : only a single figure downbelow moved with noiseless tread on the carpet, lightinga few lamps. One could not but think of all these wallshad witnessed : of all the splendour and havoc of thepast: of Justinians exultant cry : of Theodora, actress,courtesan, and empress : of the long line of em

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