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 2l6 COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE. adopted from the Greek variety, but became more conventional, with acute-pointed leaves, drilled at the several springings of the teeth with deep holes. The great characteristic of Byzantine ornament as compared with Classical, is that the pattern is incised instead of seeming to be applied, for the surface always remained flat, the pattern being cut into it without breaking its outline. Grecian and Asiatic feeling strongly pervades Byzantine ornamentation, and this is accounted for by the fact that Constantinople was a Greek city, and in close contact with the East, and Oriental methods. Note. — A good general idea of the exterior of a church in this style is to be gained from the Greek Church in the Moscow Road, Bayswater, erected by Oldrid Scott, as also the new Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster by the late John F. Bentley. The mosaics and casts in the Victoria and Albert Museum should also be inspected. 5. REFERENCE BOOKS. Choisy (A.).—" L' Art de Batir chez les Byzantins." Folio. Paris, 1883. Didron (A. N.). — "Christian Iconograpfiy." 2 vols., 8vo. 1886. Knight (H. G.). — " Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy." 2 vols., folio. 1842-1843. Lethaby (W. R.) and Swainson (H.).—" Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople." 8vo. 1894. Milligen (A. van). — " Byzantine Constantinople." 8vo. iSgg. " Saint Mark's, Venice." A large and beautiful monograph in several vols., 4to and folio, published by Signer Ongania. Venice, 1881. Salzenburg (W.). — " Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constanti- nopel." 2 vols., folio and 4to. Berlin, 1854-1855. Schultz (R. W.) and Barnsley (S. H.).— "The Monastery of St. Luke of Stiris in Phocis." Folio, igoi. Texier (C.) and PuUan (R. P.).—" Byzantine Architecture." Folio. 1864. Scott (Sir W.).— " Count Robert of Paris." (Historical Novel.)