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mankind in ever^ age and country kave keen in tke kabit of reviving, or repeating
tke works and inventions of former ages and of distant eonntries.
Ike opinions and eornrnents of suck a writer ns Nr. 7^. Dk L-rig/r^ are entitled
to attention and respect. On Ike subject now nnder review, Ke sa^s, " pkat st^le
of architecture, wkiek we call or Mo-rs^ic is manifestly a cor¬
ruption of tke saered arekiteeture of Ike Oreeks and Domans, b^ a mixture of tke
Noorisk or 8araeenes^u6, wkiek is formed out of a combination of tke Dg^Ptian,
Persian, and Hindoo. It ma^ easily Ke traced tkrougk all its variations, from tke
Okurck of 8anta 8opkia, at Oonstantinople, and tke Oatkedral of Nontreale, near
Palermo, tke one of tke sixtk, and tke otker of tke eigktk century, down to lino 's
Okapel, at (Cambridge, tke last and most perfect of tkis kind of buildings ; and to
trace it accurately would Ke a most curious and interesting work, pke oriental
st^le of building, witk columns extravagantly slender and kigk, was well known
to tke Domans, as appears from tke grotesque paintings found in Herculaneum and
Pompeii, wkiek kave, in man^ instances, a near resemklanee, in tkeir proportions,
decorations, and distrikution, witk tkose executed in tke semi-gotkie Okurck ot
Nontreale. 14m fasciculated columns are ^g^ptian and Persian; as appears from
tke ruins of Ikekes and persepolis, puklisked k^ l^orden, Denon, lViekukr, De
Dru^ne, Lce. ; and tke low proportions of tkem in tkose kuildings wkiek we call
8axon, are evidently ^lg^ptian, and were probably krougkt into Europe k^ tke
8araeens, tke^ keing precisely tke same in man^ of our old catkedrals, as tke^ are
in tke lurkisk mosques. I'ke pointed arek, wkiek we call Ootkie, is tke /--vUwe
^-'6^of wkiek, tke earliest instance known in Europe, is tke Dmissarius of tke
lake of Albano, kuilt during tke siege of Veii, long before eitker tke Oreeks or
Domans knew kow to turn an^ otker kind of arek : for as tkis ma^ be constructed
witkout a centre, b^ advancing tke stones in gradual projections over sack otker,
and tken cutting oK' tke projecting angles, its invention was obvious, and natu-
rally preceded tkose constructed upon meekanieal principles ; of wkiek, I believe,
tkere are no examples anterior to tke Nacedonian Oonc^uest.^ Ike ornaments of
tkis monastic Ootkie consist of indiscriminate imitations of almost ever^ kind of
" Ms Fates ok kssstum and tbs 6loaea maxima ok Itoms, said to bavs been built b^ tbs brst
larc^uin, ma^ seem exceptions; but tbs Fates now remaining are probably tboss ok tbs Itoman colony,
not ok tbs old Oresb eit^ ?osldonia; ancl tbs Oloasa ma^ bars been altered or rebuilt more tban ones in
later times."
^nrioniiiLs.
mankind in ever^ age and country kave keen in tke kabit of reviving, or repeating
tke works and inventions of former ages and of distant eonntries.
Ike opinions and eornrnents of suck a writer ns Nr. 7^. Dk L-rig/r^ are entitled
to attention and respect. On Ike subject now nnder review, Ke sa^s, " pkat st^le
of architecture, wkiek we call or Mo-rs^ic is manifestly a cor¬
ruption of tke saered arekiteeture of Ike Oreeks and Domans, b^ a mixture of tke
Noorisk or 8araeenes^u6, wkiek is formed out of a combination of tke Dg^Ptian,
Persian, and Hindoo. It ma^ easily Ke traced tkrougk all its variations, from tke
Okurck of 8anta 8opkia, at Oonstantinople, and tke Oatkedral of Nontreale, near
Palermo, tke one of tke sixtk, and tke otker of tke eigktk century, down to lino 's
Okapel, at (Cambridge, tke last and most perfect of tkis kind of buildings ; and to
trace it accurately would Ke a most curious and interesting work, pke oriental
st^le of building, witk columns extravagantly slender and kigk, was well known
to tke Domans, as appears from tke grotesque paintings found in Herculaneum and
Pompeii, wkiek kave, in man^ instances, a near resemklanee, in tkeir proportions,
decorations, and distrikution, witk tkose executed in tke semi-gotkie Okurck ot
Nontreale. 14m fasciculated columns are ^g^ptian and Persian; as appears from
tke ruins of Ikekes and persepolis, puklisked k^ l^orden, Denon, lViekukr, De
Dru^ne, Lce. ; and tke low proportions of tkem in tkose kuildings wkiek we call
8axon, are evidently ^lg^ptian, and were probably krougkt into Europe k^ tke
8araeens, tke^ keing precisely tke same in man^ of our old catkedrals, as tke^ are
in tke lurkisk mosques. I'ke pointed arek, wkiek we call Ootkie, is tke /--vUwe
^-'6^of wkiek, tke earliest instance known in Europe, is tke Dmissarius of tke
lake of Albano, kuilt during tke siege of Veii, long before eitker tke Oreeks or
Domans knew kow to turn an^ otker kind of arek : for as tkis ma^ be constructed
witkout a centre, b^ advancing tke stones in gradual projections over sack otker,
and tken cutting oK' tke projecting angles, its invention was obvious, and natu-
rally preceded tkose constructed upon meekanieal principles ; of wkiek, I believe,
tkere are no examples anterior to tke Nacedonian Oonc^uest.^ Ike ornaments of
tkis monastic Ootkie consist of indiscriminate imitations of almost ever^ kind of
" Ms Fates ok kssstum and tbs 6loaea maxima ok Itoms, said to bavs been built b^ tbs brst
larc^uin, ma^ seem exceptions; but tbs Fates now remaining are probably tboss ok tbs Itoman colony,
not ok tbs old Oresb eit^ ?osldonia; ancl tbs Oloasa ma^ bars been altered or rebuilt more tban ones in
later times."