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 403
h gallery. The exterior facesof the gallery walls are broken by flat pi-laster-strips and simple brick cornices.The wall of tlie central octagon above theroof of the gallery is pierced by a windowover each face of the octagon, and coveredby a low-pitched roof hiding the dome with-in, whicli is of… … Fig. 159.—Ravenna, S. Vitale. stroyed in tlie earthquake of IfiSS, for-merly occupied the western face of theoctagon, and the apse of the choir pro-jects from the eastern face. The narthexwas flanked by two circiihir towers—one ofwhicli still remains—not rising above theroof of the upper gallery,…
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