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CHAPTER XXIXCONCLUSIONIN the preceding pages we have traced the risedevelopment of a new art In eastern and western Europe,based on the style of the old Roman world, but followingwidely different principles, which led it ever farther andfarther from the parent art,and SummaryIn the Empire of EASTERN ROME the basilican plan Byzantineof Constantlne's time gradually yielded to the influence tectureof the art of the Asiatic provinces. The wooden roof gaveway to covering with stone or brick, which after manytentative experiments resulted In the discovery of constructionby pendentives, and the mighty dome of S. Sophia atConstantinople. New forms of decoration were adopted.Sculpture was relegated to subordinate functions and confinedto capitals, friezes, and purely architectural features.Painting, and above all mosaic, together with linings ofprecious marbles gave the walls a loveliness all their own.The decline of native art in ITALY was followed by a itaiogradualrevival when Byzantine art passed across the JcS? tinetectureAdriatic: Its adoption began at Ravenna with thebuildings of Honorius and Galla Placidia; it advancedfurther under Theodoric and his Gothic kingdom; andit was fully developed after the conquest of Justinian andthe establishment of the exarchate, when the dome madeitsappearance at S, Vitale.j. A. n. 17