Byzantine Gallery

Byzantine architecture and sculpture, (1898). Creator: Karl Schaupert

Byzantine architecture and sculpture, (1898). Fig 1: Capital from Agia Theotokos at Constantinople, late 9th century. Fig 2:Capital from S. Vitale at Ravenna. Fig 3: Lintel-decoration from Agia Theotokos at Constantinople. Fig 4: Chaptrel-cornice from the church of St. Nicolas at Myra. Fig 5: Pilaster-capital from Agia Sofia at Constantinople. Fig 6: Door-frame on the abbey-church at St. Denis, mid-12th century. Fig 7: Panel. Figs 8 and 9: Pillar-decoration from the cathedral at Bourges. Fig 10: Capital from the abbey-church at St. Benoit. Fig 11: Capital from the Barbarossa-palace at Gelnhausen. Fig 12: Arch-border from the church St. Amant de Boixe. Fig 13: Arch-border from the church at Gelnhausen, early 13th century. Fig 14: Console from the church at Gelnhausen, early 13th century. Fig 15: Decoration of a pillar-shaft from the church at Tournus, 12th century. Fig 16: Decoration of a pillar-shaft from cathedral at Chartres. Fig 17: From a door-frame from the former Benedictine-abbey-church at Ellwangen. Fig 18:Frieze in the interior of St. Walderich's chapel at Murrhardt. Figs 19 and 20: Arch-consols on the side-aisle of St. Sebald, Nuremberg. Fig 21: Key-stone-decoration in the same church. Fig 22: Key-stone-decoration from the cathedral at Bamberg'. Plate 34 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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Approach to Antioch, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Approach to Antioch, 1890. Ancient Greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River, founded 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, a chief center of early Christianity during Roman times and was on the frontline of conflicts between two hostile empires over the next 350 years. Siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]

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View in Spalatro, Showing the Campanile and the Peristyle of the Palace of Diocletian, 1890

View in Spalatro, Showing the Campanile and the Peristyle of the Palace of Diocletian, 1890. Cathedral of Saint Domnius built c305 as the Mausoleum of Diocletian with Romanesque Bell Tower added c1100 AD and Diocletian's Palace c4th century in old town Split, Croatia, an ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]

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