Excerpt from Constantinople: And the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor; Illustrated, in a Series of Drawings From Nature Among the symptoms of growing European habits and usages, which are daily seen creeping over the metropolis of the Osmali and its vicinity, one of the most remarkable perhaps is the change Which is daily introduced into their public edifices, and the substitution of a chaste and classic, for a, fantastic Oriental style of architecture. When the rude ignorant Turks first rushed among the ...
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Excerpt from Constantinople: And the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor; Illustrated, in a Series of Drawings From Nature Among the symptoms of growing European habits and usages, which are daily seen creeping over the metropolis of the Osmali and its vicinity, one of the most remarkable perhaps is the change Which is daily introduced into their public edifices, and the substitution of a chaste and classic, for a, fantastic Oriental style of architecture. When the rude ignorant Turks first rushed among the monuments of European art, what they did not utterly destroy, they perverted. Ionic shafts were pierce'd for cannons, Corinthian capitals were rounded into balls; and wherever they were applied to their original purpose, they were invariably inverted; and to this day are seen everywhere Turkish houses built with remains of Grecian temples, sculptured architraves laid for door-steps, and pillars standing on their smaller ends with the base uppermost, as the preferable position, I have grieved, said Gillins, not so much at the broken and prostrate monuments of ancient art, as at the barbarous, perverted uses to which they were applied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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