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Updated: January 29, 2026

In Italy, however, there is enough architecture to prove up to the hilt, were further proof required, that the spirit was vigorous. It is the age of what Sig. Rivoira calls Pre-Lombardic Architecture Italian Byzantine: it is the age of the Byzantine school of painting at Rome. What the "Barbarians" did, indirectly, for art cannot be over-estimated.

Clive Bell - Art