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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redthe seat of empire thither, we shall find that at first itwas very little affected by Greek influence, though themosaic decoration was probably by artists from Con-stantinople. But in the time of the Gothic kingdomthe Roman element in the architecture became modified,and Greek influence began to make itself felt. This willbe understood by a comparison of the capitals at S. Giov.Evangelista built by Galla Placidia, with those of S. Apol-linare Nuovo which was built by Theodoric; and afterthe Byzantine Conquest Greek influence of course be-came supreme.Native Signor Rivoira holds that sufficient credit has not arSts^ ^ been given to native artists and too much to the Greeks.He will not admit that from 404, when Honorius cameto Ravenna, down to the fall of the Lombard kingdom Quod ipse aedificare jussit...sed, ut mihi videtur esse, sepulcro projectusest et ipsa urna ubi jacuit, ex lapide porphyretico valde mirabilis, ante ipsiusmonasterii aditum posita est. Agnellus, Vita S. Johannis.
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CH. xi) RAVENNATE ART 169 in 774 Italy was obliged to the East for artists of everykind, whether painters, mosaicists, or architects. On thecontrary, he thinks that the architecture of that period isdue to native artists, and principally to the School ofRavenna, and the sculpture at first to Greek artists inthe time of Theodoric and Justinian, and afterwards tonative artists working in a Byzantinesque manner. In this conclusion I think we may generally agreewith him. Although at the Gothic invasion many ofthe trade guilds were broken up and dispersed, onecannot suppose that the craft of building among nativeItalians was suddenly extinguished. The skilled work-men must have found their way to any place where,as at Ravenna, there was some chance of security andemployment. It would be unreasonable to suppose that Partialwhen any work had to be undertaken, masons and ofTrtTcarpenters had to be imported from Constantinople. At ^*^^^Rome certainly, the art of working marble was stillunderst

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