But it is not possible that either Greek or Gothic should permanently take the place assigned to neo-Roman architecture in the public buildings of European capitals.
FOOTNOTES: [10] The question of the genesis of the Lombard style is one of the most difficult in Italian art-history.

I would not willingly be understood to speak of Lombard architecture in any sense different from that in which it is usual to speak of Norman.

To suppose that either the Lombards or the Normans had a style of their own, prior to their occupation of districts from the monuments of which they learned rudely to use the decayed Roman manner, would be incorrect.

Yet it seems impossible to deny that both Normans and Lombards in adapting antecedent models added something of their own, specific to themselves as Northerners.

The Lombard, like the Norman or the Rhenish Romanesque, is the first stage in the progressive mediaeval architecture of its own district.
[11] I use the term Lombard architecture here, as defined above (p.