The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 256
,upwards of 120 feet in diameter, not being properly poised over thefour main piers, in consequence of gathering the spandrils into toosmall a compass, exhibited, in less than 25 years, symptoms of ap-proaching downfall, and the piers were accordingly strengthened onthe outside. Eusebius, Paul the… … Another system of decoration succeeded this, and was much copiedin Europe, as may be seen in St. Mark, at Venice, begun in 996. Inthis system the horizontal line, as bounding the front, was entirelygiven up, and was replaced by an arched line marking the extrados ofthe vaults. In the Cireek islands…
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