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 200
gue) CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SYRIA these churches developed one feature peculiar to themselvesand of the highest interest: that curious decoration of the ex-terior of the apse with colonnettes and corbel-tables (111. 58),presaging so strangely Romanesque France. The second type of church, which is… … III. 59. — Plan of Chapel at Rbeah. (From Butler) massive piers supporting great arches. The aisles were cov-ered with the Syrian vault of the South, and the nave, thoughstill roofed in wood, was, in at least one instance,1 spanned bygreat transverse arches. Most remarkable of all, the facadewas…
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