Identifier: monumentsofearly00lowr (find matches)
Title: Monuments of the early church
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959
Subjects: Christian antiquities Christian art and symbolism Church architecture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, MacMillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 42. — Stone windows. and Roman civilization, but it inherited more fully than anyother Christian land the traditions of Oriental art. It isaltogether likely that Syrian architecture had a marked influ-ence upon all neighboring lands — except Palestine, where allthe great churches were due to the munificence of the Romanor Byzantine emperors. At all events its free and strongdevelopment of the theme which was presented by the basilicawas not surpassed till the advent of the Gothic. From adecorative point of view the interior of the Syrian basilicawas far less effective than the more usual type which we havebeen studying; it lacked the rich pictorial mosaics, and reliedupon a strictly architectural decoration of the stone surface.From an architectural point of view it was incomparablystronger and more consistent, an advantage which was dis-played even more conspicuously on the outside than within. It THE CENTRAL TYPE—In General 131 is quite beyond our scope to do justice to t

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