Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman,1861-1892 · New York, C. Scribner's · leaf 143
called the Byzantine. The distinctive feature of this method of con-struction was the placing of the circular dome, notupon a cylindrical drum, as had been done by theRomans in the Pantheon and other buildings, butupon four walls, square in plan, surmounted bysemicircular arches, with the… … THE PENDENTIVE SYSTEM IN BYZANTINE DOMES. THE BYZANTINE STYLE. 97 usually short, more frequently semicircular thanrectangular, and often terminated by an apse. We have seen, in the baptistery of St. Vitale, atRavenna (in which Greek artists were undoubtedlyemployed), a tendency to reduce the number…
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