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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 36

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ders had raised small domes on drums resting onpendentives, and rising above the main roof of the building,but they had still carried these drums up somewhat above thespringing of the dome, and had further fortified them with but-tresses built over the supporting piers, as in Hagia Theotokosof… … Fig. I. — Hagia Theotokos. of western Europe is that of Aachen (Fig. 2). In this case thedrum is carried up far beyond the springing, and is covered

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