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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
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INTERIOR OF S. MARIA IN COSMEDIN
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BYZANTINE ROME
Renewed impact of Greece, by way of Byzantium. This time it is not the astonishment of a primitive type before the rich entanglement of an acanthus: Greeks by origin come to Rome to build S. Maria in Cosmedin. A Greece very far from Phidias but one which has kept the root of the matter, that is to say the sense of relationships and the mathematical precision thanks to which perfection becomes approachable.
