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 234
m m pi i Jffi III. 72. — Plan of Hagios Bacchos, Constantinople. (From Pulgher) THE PROBLEM OF PENDENTIVES bends, far from being structural, project almost to the externalwall and completely ruin aisle and gallery. Still the variedperspectives and charm of contrasted surface attained in thedesign… … III. 73. — Plan of S. Vitale of Ravenna. (From Dehio) The problem of placing a spherical dome on a polygonalbuilding was no new one. In the West, the Romans had attackedit in one of the octagonal halls of the enclosure at CaracallasBaths, in the so-called temple of Minerva Medica, and else-where.1…
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