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St John
Studius Constantinople 490 A.D. This one of the last structures with a Classical entablature and proportions. By this late date, Byzantine "Corinthian" capitals have become a hybrid of the Classical Composite order. The acanthus here are more projected and detailed than those at San Vitale. By 532 A.D., in Hagia Sophia, projecting acanthus on capitals are abandoned. The Studius church survived with a few Moslem additions into the 20th century, only to be gutted by a fire in 1920.
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