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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1920)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 246

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1920, leaf 246
red with a pyramidal roof of timber, thus followingthe fashion of the temple at Spalato and the baptisteriesat Ravenna. This plan allows large windows at thebase of the dome, which is I think the best lighted domeI have ever seen. • The exedrae and the apse are covered with semi-domes : the choir,… … 176 RAVENNA, BYZANTINE PERIOD [ch.xii s. vitaie at both levels, the plan of the groins being strangelyaffected by the intrusion of the exedrae which force theminto many irregularities^ The The lower part of the walls is lined with marble slabs, iTdng? arranged in panels of strongly veined red and…

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