{Byzantine Architecture}[2nd March 1991]

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*‘In architecture the post-and-lintel style in stone, which had been taken over from the Greeks, was already giving place to an architecture of arches, vaults and domes in brick, whereas sculptural ornament was becoming more formal and less naturalistic.** These changes were accelerated in Constantinople partly because of the closer proximity of the city to Asia Minor and Syria, both fertile centres of new artistic ideas that had developed independently of Rome. Indeed, church architecture in these areas progressed very considerably between the 4^th and *** the 6^th centuries, while in the visual arts a style that favoured formality**** and# expression rather than the idealised naturalism of Classical art had begun to find approval at an early date.’

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#* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:] 974

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