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 205
podosis. In some of the earlier churchesthese apses were placed in a trefoil, instead of being alligned.2It is a remarkable fact that with the single exception of the church 1 This is the conventional, if questionable, view. The scarcity of wood in Egypt wouldseem to offer a sufficient explanation… … III. 62. — Plan of Dair-as-Suriani. (From Butler) 88 COPTIC VAULTS at Dair-al-Malak there is known no instance of an atrium in aCoptic church.1 The most remarkable development of Coptic art is foundin the desert monasteries of the Wady Natrun valley. In thesesolitudes where no wood could be…
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