LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Byzantine Art: Constantinople
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Plaster work, again, an art on which wonderful skill was lavished in Rome, became under the Byzantines extremely rude. Many good examples of this work exist at San Vitale and Sant' Apollinare in Classe at Ravenna... at Parenzo, and at St Sophia, Constantinople. Later examples of plaster work of Byzantine tradition are to be found at Cividale, and at Sant' Ambrogio, Milan, where the tympana of the well-known baldachin are of this material, and contain modelled figures.
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That symbolical system which was developed by the early Greek or Byzantine artists out of the Christian symbolism. Its chief features are the circle, dome, and round arch; and its chief symbols the lily, cross, vesica, and nimbus. St. Sophia, at Constantinople, and St. Mark, at Venice, are excellent examples.
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This project aims to create computer reconstructions of Byzantine monuments of Constantinople in the year 1200. The site has a vast selection of complete and incomplete models available for viewing. Very nicely done by Albrecht Berger and A. Tayfun Öner.
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