A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 230
the liuilding are set inthe straight walls of apolyg(inal enclosure, whilethe arcades of the apses,which are merelj decora-374 ROUND CHURCH tive, and have little weight tu earry, standon a circular plan. The etibrt to reconcilethe arcade, and the jjolygonal plan whichsuited it, with the dome, which… … Bil. - ^ ■.. _;_ Round Church: S. Maria at No^ ki; \ ; see Plan. favourite covering of the Romans, and towhich the Eastern builders clung tenaciously, ledto the great invention of pendentives, by whieh ment in S. Sofia, became the leading influencein shaping Byzantine churches (see…
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