Identifier: opencourt_oct1911caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL AT VENICE. The church of St. Cyriac at Ancona (its capitals are absolute copiesof Persepolitan works), that of St. Zeno at Verona, and that of St.Mark at Venice are striking examples of that transitory period, theinfancy of Byzantine art in Europe. In many of the buildings of the period immediately following,notably the work at Padua and Venice, radical departures were madein the general lines; the style became more flamboyant and daring,but after a little while, they got back to a closer imitation of St.Sophias in form, in detail and in construction. This church reallyseems to be the most perfect example of that art. The Turks clung 608 THE OPEN COURT.
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THE INFLUENCE OF ORIENTAL ART. 609 to it, when once they began copying it, more tenaciously than anyother people. At Stamboul, for centuries after, every buildingerected was but a copy of some part of St. Sophias. The laterstructures in Egypt, in Persia, in India and in Russia, are all trace-able to that magnificent model. You may follow the old Persian art of Babylon and of Persep-olis, down through that of Ecbatana, of Hamadon and of Media—and find that this one example of Byzantine is the hyphen unitingthat ancient art to that of Catholic Europe, first called romanesque,

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