Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 128
f which were des-tined to endure throughout the Middle Ages and to modifysensibly the destinies of Western art. One of these was the intro- 1 An actual example of this constuetion occurs in the baptistery of S. Giovanni in Laterano,Rome. This construction is also common in Syria, but almost always,… … I! M III. 35. — Plan of old S. Retro, Rome ORIENTATION duction of a definite system of orientation. This was, again,not an entirely new idea. Greek temples, with rare exceptions,had been constructed with the principal front facing the east,so that the light of the rising sun penetrated the great…
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