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churches of to-day. But gradually the demand for greater 

 adornment grew, and to satisfy it pictures were placed over 

 the entire iconostasis, and so it began to assume somewhat the 

 present form. After the Council of Florence (1438) when 

 the last conciliar attempt at reunion of the Churches failed, the 

 Greek clergy took great pleasure in building and adorning their 

 churches as little like the Latin ones as possible, and from then 

 on the iconostasis assumed the form of the wall-like barrier 

 which it has at present. As its present form is merely a mat- 

 ter of development of Church architecture suitable and adapted 

 to the Greek Rite, the iconostasis was continuously used by 

 the Catholics as well as by the Orthodox. 



