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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 158

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 158
tmust accompany you^ Others who have seen it com-plain that the proportions are too wide and low, and thatthe dome seems to come down upon you. This criticismis probably provoked mainly by the photographs of theinterior, which are always taken from the gallery in orderto embrace as much as possible… … S. SOPHIA—CONSTANTINOPLEThe West Gallery CH. vi] S. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE loi the floor I, for one, felt no want of elevation, and theproportions seemed to me satisfactory. With one exception S. Sophia is the only great Historicalbuilding in Europe which has endured and been in tions ofconstant…

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