The Ecclesiologist, 1865, Vol. 26 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Ecclesiologist, 1865, Vol. 26

The chapter entitled Introduction to the study of Byzantine archi tecture is full of useful observations. We notice that Mr. Pullan asserts that the supplementary abacus, or descent - that cubical block of stone. Often higher than the capital itself, which, carved with monograms or floral patterns. Is so often found above the capitals of Byzantine columns - is a certain proof that the building in which it occurs is of Byzantine date. He also claims an early Byzantine date for the horse-shoe arch - which some have thought to be Saracenic. He finds it, for example, in the rock-cut tomb of Urgub, which is at tributed to the fourth century. Here there is a rock-hewn facade with two ranges of arches, in arcades, all of them being horse-shoe headed. The same arch is to be seen in J ustinian's church of Dane, (the ancient Thanna). On the Euphrates. And in the ninth-century church of Digoor. In Armenia. Speaking of windows, Mr. Pullan tells us that, in domestic buildings, they were always open - as is still the general use in the East. In churches translucent slabs of alabaster were often used; or thin slabs of marble were perforated with circular apertures, admitting both light and air, while excluding rain. When glass was first introduced, the window openings (he says) were filled with small pieces of it, embedded in stucco. We are much pleased with the author's careful description of the bricks and mortar and con crete used by the Byzantine builders. So admirable were the mate rials, that the structures remain to this day uninjured, except by the wanton mischief of human destroyers.

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