ish handiwork we had seen at Yrana. It is squarein plan, with a very well-proportioned dome resting onpendentives, which are made of that curious honey-comb or stalactite coffering which was invented bythe Arabs, adopted by the Turks, and seems almosta part of the Mahometan religion. The arches… … Iig- 54- 182 Dernis. [Ch. xvi. plan is spoiled by the addition of a nave and choir,which contain nothing worth noticing except twocapitals, which are evidently of Turkish handiwork,used second-hand in the Christian building (Fig. 54).They illustrate that ingenuity in geometrical orna-ment to which…
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