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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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LATER ORIENTAL DECORATION. The brick base upon which and embedded in which were woven, so to speak, the face tiling and enamels of later Oriental work. Where in Grecian or Roman art do you find a suggestion forthe great dome of St. Sophias? What in the classic orders couldinspire the elongated, bizarre and banded columns, the fantasticand weird capitals of the Byzantine works? And their great gilded THE INFLUENCE OF ORIENTAL ART. 603 backgrounds to their vividly colored pictorial representations, donein bits of glass and enameled tile; their mosaics, their fabrics, theirjewels, their glassware, their furnishings; were they inspired by theseverely correct, albeit beautiful, works of Greece? Can there beany connection between the natural poses and true painting of thehuman figure by the Greeks, and the conventionalized, stiff, almostgrotesque figures of Byzantium? After Alexanders great conquests and their resultant disloca-tion of the Persian empire, its customs and its arts still held

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  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookauthor:Open_Court_Publishing_company__Chicago
  • booksubject:Religion
  • booksubject:Religion_and_science
  • bookpublisher:Chicago___The_Open_Court_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Morris_Library__Southern_Illinois_University_Carbondale
  • booksponsor:CARLI__Consortium_of_Academic_and_Research_Libraries_in_Illinois
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