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A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 157

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i is one of themost remarkable Byzantine churches inGreece, distinguished for the mosaics ongold ground that line the interior, andnotable for some difPerences in plan fiomthe usiial Greek type. It is small, like allthe Greek Byzantine churches, making arectangle about 50 ft. by TO ft. There isas… … Fig. 61.— Daphne, Convent Ccutch. inal walls that enclose the nave, and on a pair of piers between the apses at the eastend, and a similar pair between arches at 105 DKLOS the west. Dmilili sf|uiiiclics cut oti thecorners of tlie square mid bear a ring-cornice on which stands the drum of thedome,…

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