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
e, and ter-minating in a semicircular apsecovered by a semi-dome. Thisremarkable interior has beenmuch disguised by modernpainting, but its decoration,except where in recent timesit has been subjected to recon-struction, is in the highest de-gree characteristic of Byzantinearchitecture. The walls… … Fig. 160.—Ravenna, S. Vitale.Scale of 50 feet. 335 i;.\\ KXNA restiil the .Suviour crouiitil, with angelsaiul archangels, the apostles and saints,the emperor Justinian and the empressTheodora, and various scriptural subjects.The columns of the choir are of verd-an- l)erhaj)s original ; but the apse…
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