Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    Btantine Porphyrogenitus or hie grandson caused to be covered with gilded bronze; the pedestal of the Theodosian column (§. 207) and some other things of less importance. See Carbognano, Descr. topogr. dello Btato presente di Cpoli. 1794. Pertusier, Proraen. Pittoresques dana Constantinople, 1815. V. Hammer's Constantinopolis und der Bosporus, 2 bde 1822. Raczynski's Malerische Reise, s. 42 If. Among the princi- pal buildings were the aqueducts (such as that of Valens), and the cis- terns, large fabrics, but petty in detail, which also prevailed in other parts of the East (for example at Alexandria, Descript. de I'Egypte T. v. pi. 36. 37), and served as models for Arabic buildings. In Byzantium there are eight, partly open, partly vaulted over with small domes; only one still used, that beside the hippodrome 190 X 166 feet large, in three stories, each of which consists of 16 X 14 columns. The columns are mostly Corinthian, but also with other quite abnormal capitals. Walsh's Journey from Constantinople to England, ed. 2.1828. Count Andreossy'a Constantinople et le Bosphore. P. 1828. L. iii. ch. 5. 8. 194 During this period was developed the Christian church-architecture, not from the Grecian temple, but, con- formably to the wants of the new religion, from the basilica, inasmuch as old basilicas were sometimes fitted up for that purpose, and sometimes new ones built, but after Constantme I chiefly with plundered pieces of architecture. A portico (pro- naos, narthex), the interior entirely roofed, several aisles, the central one higher, or all equally high; behind m a circular recess (concha, sanctuarium) the elevated tribune. By length- ening this and adding side-porticoes, the later form of Italy 3 arose Besides these, there were at Rome as baptisteries par- ticular round buildings, whose form and disposition were de- rived from the bath-rooms of the Romans (§. 292, 1); but m the East, even as early as Constantine, churches also were 4 built of a round form with wide-vaulted cupolas. This form was on the whole very grandiose, although in the individual parts developed in a paltry taste in the church of bt. bophia, which was erected in the time of Justinian; it afterwards be- came prevalent in the Eastern empire, and even the later Greek churches, with their main and subordinate cupolas, pay 5 homage to this taste. The edifices of the Ostrogothic time, especially from Amalasuntha downwards, did not probably arise without the influence of Byzantine architects. 1 Church of Saint Anges founded by Constantia, the daughter of Constantine, a basilica with three aisles, and with two ranges of columns one above the other. A five-aisled basiUca of S. Paul outside the walls, according to some, by Constantine, the columns of different kinds, as also in St. John of the Lateran, the curious carpenter^work originally overlaid with gold; recently burned down (Rossim's Vedute) N. M. NTcolaf Delia Basilica di San Paolo. R. 1815 fol. The five-aisled basilica «f St Peter on the Vatican (Bunsen, Beschreibung von Rom u. s. 50 sq.) c ntcted b;;ortlcoes with the bridge across the Tiber as St. Paul's was wXthe city St. Clemens, a model of the ancient disposition of basihcas.