The cathedrals and churches of northern Italy, their history and their architecture; (1908)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis) · Boston, L.C. Page and company · leaf 38
St. Vitale at Ravenna andSt. Marks at Venice, both built by Constan-tinopolitan architects, have fine domes. Theplan of St. Marks is in the form of a Greekcross with four equal arms within an inscri-bing square; that of Sta. Sophia is the same,and that of a smaller cognominous church atSalonica.… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy localities where we may trace any decidedimitation of the type of Constantinople. Indeed, there was little to be gained. De-duct mere barbaric splendour — barbaricperhaps in the truest meaning of the word— and there is a spirit, a genius, an energy,in the rudest…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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