Last evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, Professor C. H. Moore delivered the first of his sertes of six illustrated lectures upon the "Fine Arts of the Middle Ages."
In introduction, Professor Moore said that to understand the art of the Middle Ages we must consider architecture, sculpture, and painting together, because at that period these now separate branches were closely united. The architecture of the Middle Ages was primarily that of church edifices. The Gothic system, the distinctive style of the Middle Ages, was developed from the architecture of the early Christian Church. It was the Roman "basilica" which, in all probability, furnished the first model. Professor Moore then traced the growth of church architecture through the early Roman forms, as shown by the churches of St. Paul and St. Lorenzo at Rome, down to the Byzantine form, as shown in the church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople. The main characteristics of each type were shown by the slides and explained by the lecturer.
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