Show lljrinnlln Art Not only hundreds of admirable Syrian churches but SL Sophia Itself had been completed beforo tho early Christian ICrlgueux was begun When wo think what this mutt have been with Its wooden ceiling and scant barbaric bar-baric attempts at ornament and what St Sophias Is with the most beautiful dome that baa over yet been con structedanil richness of finely devised and perfectly wrought adornment that baa never yet been equaled can we marvel that any kind or degree of contact con-tact with Ilyiantlno art deeply Impressed Im-pressed western eyes and often guided western hands Can wo wonder that the churches of Constantinople were copied at Havcnna or that Chsrle magna copied Havcnna at Alila Chapelto and sedulously encouraged the Immigration of Ilyiantlno artists Or Is I It surprising that In the tenth century the Venetians perpetually In commercial contact with overy eastern east-ern port Imitated a Constantlonpolttan church amid their own lagoons Ie twecn tho sixth and Ibo eleventh century cen-tury western Homancsquo art was not even sure what It wanted to try to do while In tho sixth century eastern art Dyianllno art had already al-ready conceived and perfected some of Ibo most marvelous monuments of human Intelligence anti tuleTho Churches of Wrlgueux and AD IOU Urne by M 0 Van Henuelser la the b Century |